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title: Penis autem olim rure solus habitabat, hand procul a Testiculis, ami… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Penis autem olim rure solus habitabat, hand procul a Testiculis, amico ejus, qui magus erat valde peritus, atque fundum proximum incolebat. Who acts: olim solus habitabat. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 1

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Penis autem olim rure solus habitabat, hand procul a Testiculis, amico ejus, qui magus erat valde peritus, atque fundum proximum incolebat.

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**Who acts:** olim solus habitabat · **What happens:** hand · **To what, where:** procul, olim solus habitabat

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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 (olim solus habitabat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg70959:27:1
# text = Penis autem olim rure solus habitabat, hand procul a Testiculis, amico ejus, qui magus erat valde peritus, atque fundum proximum incolebat.
1	Penis	Penis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	autem	autem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	olim	olim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	rure	rure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	solus	solus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	habitabat	habitabat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	procul	procul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Testiculis	Testiculis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	amico	amico	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ejus	ejus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	qui	qui	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	magus	magus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	erat	erat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	valde	valde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	peritus	peritus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	atque	atque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	fundum	fundum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	proximum	proximum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	incolebat	incolebat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | infinitive | olim solus habitabat  Penis autem *not said here* | procul |  |  |  | amico ejus and qui valde peritus and atque proximum incolebat *obl*; a Testiculis *obj* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent procul=Destination testiculis=Theme |

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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.

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**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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