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title: Haec tamen interdum, magno dolore pressa, lamentari non desinebat, q… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Haec tamen interdum, magno dolore pressa, lamentari non desinebat, quod maxime Penem pigebat, qui eam penitus amabat, etiamsi nuces debitas reddere noluerat. Who acts: etiamsi. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina C
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 11

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Haec tamen interdum, magno dolore pressa, lamentari non desinebat, quod maxime Penem pigebat, qui eam penitus amabat, etiamsi nuces debitas reddere noluerat.

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**Who acts:** etiamsi · **What happens:** quod, nuce · **To what, where:** maxime, debitas, Haec tamen interdum

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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 (etiamsi), 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:pg70959:27:11
# text = Haec tamen interdum, magno dolore pressa, lamentari non desinebat, quod maxime Penem pigebat, qui eam penitus amabat, etiamsi nuces debitas reddere noluerat.
1	Haec	Haec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	tamen	tamen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	interdum	interdum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	magno	magno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	dolore	dolore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	pressa	pressa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lamentari	lamentari	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	non	non	ADV	AFX	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	desinebat	desinebat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	quod	quod	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	maxime	maxime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	Penem	Penem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pigebat	pigebat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	qui	qui	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
19	eam	eam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	penitus	penitus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	amabat	amabat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	etiamsi	etiamsi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	nsubj	_	_
24	nuces	nuce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	debitas	debita	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	reddere	reddere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	noluerat	noluerat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quod** | infinitive |  | maxime and Penem pigebat and qui penitus amabat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nuce** | present | etiamsi | debitas and reddere noluerat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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