Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 3
Penis forte ad villam Vaginae vagatus, et fame afflictus, illam palmae nuces, quas nuper in horto collegerat, rogavit, scilicet quod ipse totam diem in agro laborasset nec sibi cibum parare potuisset.
Who acts: illam nuces · What happens: quod · To what, where: ipse totam diem, agro laborasset nec, villam Vaginae vagatus
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (illam nuces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Penis | Penis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 vagatus | nsubj |
| 2 | forte | forte | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 villam | amod |
| 3 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 villam | compound |
| 4 | villam | villam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vagatus | compound |
| 5 | Vaginae | Vaginae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 vagatus | compound |
| 6 | vagatus | vagatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 afflictus | punct |
| 8 | et | et | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 afflictus | amod |
| 9 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 afflictus | compound |
| 10 | afflictus | afflictus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vagatus | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 illam | punct |
| 12 | illam | illam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nuces | compound |
| 13 | palmae | palmae | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 illam | dep |
| 14 | nuces | nuce | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 quod | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 nuper | punct |
| 16 | quas | qua | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 nuper | compound |
| 17 | nuper | nuper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nuces | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 collegerat | case |
| 19 | horto | horto | X | _ | 20 collegerat | compound |
| 20 | collegerat | collegerat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nuper | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rogavit | punct |
| 22 | rogavit | rogavit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 collegerat | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 scilicet | punct |
| 24 | scilicet | scilicet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nuces | conj |
| 25 | quod | quod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 vagatus | parataxis |
| 26 | ipse | ipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 diem | compound |
| 27 | totam | totam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 diem | compound |
| 28 | diem | diem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 quod | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 nec | case |
| 30 | agro | agro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 nec | compound |
| 31 | laborasset | laborasset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 nec | compound |
| 32 | nec | nec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 diem | nmod |
| 33 | sibi | sibi | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 nec | conj |
| 34 | cibum | cibum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 potuisset | compound |
| 35 | parare | parare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 potuisset | compound |
| 36 | potuisset | potuisset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sibi | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vagatus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quod | present | illam nuces and quas nuper in horto collegerat and rogavit and scilicet | ipse totam diem | agro laborasset nec | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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