Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 4
Nec abnuit Vagina, sed se pauperem esse dicebat, et Penem debitum reddere alio tempore opportere.
Who acts: Nec abnuit, et · What happens: s, be, reddere · To what, where: Nec abnuit, pauperem esse dicebat
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 (Nec abnuit, et), 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 | Nec | Nec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 abnuit | compound |
| 2 | abnuit | abnuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 se | nsubj |
| 3 | Vagina | Vagina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 abnuit | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sed | punct |
| 5 | sed | s | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 abnuit | acl |
| 6 | se | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | pauperem | pauperem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dicebat | compound |
| 8 | esse | esse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dicebat | compound |
| 9 | dicebat | dicebat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 se | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reddere | punct |
| 11 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 reddere | nsubj |
| 12 | Penem | Penem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reddere | compound |
| 13 | debitum | debitum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reddere | compound |
| 14 | reddere | reddere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dicebat | conj |
| 15 | alio | alio | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 reddere | dep |
| 16 | tempore | tempore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opportere | compound |
| 17 | opportere | opportere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 alio | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 se | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | s | participle | Nec abnuit not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | present | Nec abnuit | pauperem esse dicebat and Penem debitum reddere | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dicebat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reddere | et | 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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