Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 9
Unum autem e lignis quod peracutum erat Vaginam inter crura altius vulneravit, gravique dolore afflixit.
Who acts: Unum autem · What happens: quod · To what, where: peracutum erat
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 (Unum autem), 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 | Unum | Unum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 autem | compound |
| 2 | autem | autem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quod | nsubj |
| 3 | e | e | X | _ | 4 lignis | compound |
| 4 | lignis | lignis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 autem | conj |
| 5 | quod | quod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | peracutum | peracutum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 erat | compound |
| 7 | erat | erat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quod | obj |
| 8 | Vaginam | Vaginam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 crura | compound |
| 9 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crura | compound |
| 10 | crura | crura | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quod | parataxis |
| 11 | altius | altius | ADP | _ | 12 vulneravit | case |
| 12 | vulneravit | vulneravit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crura | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gravique | punct |
| 14 | gravique | gravique | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crura | conj |
| 15 | dolore | dolore | ADV | _ | 16 afflixit | advmod |
| 16 | afflixit | afflixit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gravique | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quod | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quod | present | Unum autem and e lignis | peracutum erat | Vaginam inter crura altius vulneravit and gravique and afflixit parataxis | 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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