Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 8
Penis tamen noluit, et Vagina iterum vehementius nuces postulabat; deinde, cum se nihil profiteri sentiret, ligna in terram irata dejecit, seque insuper prostravit.
Who acts: Vagina iterum vehementius, Penis tamen noluit · What happens: nuce, be · To what, where: postulabat, nihil profiteri sentiret
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 (Vagina iterum vehementius, Penis tamen noluit), 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 | 3 noluit | compound |
| 2 | tamen | tamen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noluit | compound |
| 3 | noluit | noluit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 se | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nuces | punct |
| 5 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 9 nuces | cc |
| 6 | Vagina | Vagina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 vehementius | compound |
| 7 | iterum | iterum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vehementius | compound |
| 8 | vehementius | vehementius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nuces | nsubj |
| 9 | nuces | nuce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 noluit | acl:relcl |
| 10 | postulabat | postulabat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nuces | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 deinde | punct |
| 12 | deinde | deinde | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 noluit | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cum | punct |
| 14 | cum | cum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noluit | conj |
| 15 | se | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | nihil | nihil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sentiret | compound |
| 17 | profiteri | profiteri | X | _ | 18 sentiret | compound |
| 18 | sentiret | sentiret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 se | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ligna | punct |
| 20 | ligna | ligna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sentiret | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 dejecit | case |
| 22 | terram | terram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dejecit | compound |
| 23 | irata | irata | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dejecit | compound |
| 24 | dejecit | dejecit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ligna | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 prostravit | punct |
| 26 | seque | seque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 insuper | compound |
| 27 | insuper | insuper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 prostravit | compound |
| 28 | prostravit | prostravit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sentiret | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 se | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nuce | present | Vagina iterum vehementius | postulabat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does | present | Penis tamen noluit and cum | nihil profiteri sentiret and ligna in terram irata dejecit and insuper prostravit | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sentiret=Theme |
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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