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title: At Testiculi, de Vaginae vulnere certior factus, dixit Penem Vaginam… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: At Testiculi, de Vaginae vulnere certior factus, dixit Penem Vaginam sanare posse si verbis suis obtemperet; et Penis laetus se velle omnia facere quae necesse essent asseverabat. Who acts: et Penis laetus. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Quomodo Eveni
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 15

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At Testiculi, de Vaginae vulnere certior factus, dixit Penem Vaginam sanare posse si verbis suis obtemperet; et Penis laetus se velle omnia facere quae necesse essent asseverabat.

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**Who acts:** et Penis laetus · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** velle omnia facere, verbis suis obtemperet

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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 (et Penis laetus), 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:pg70959:27:15
# text = At Testiculi, de Vaginae vulnere certior factus, dixit Penem Vaginam sanare posse si verbis suis obtemperet; et Penis laetus se velle omnia facere quae necesse essent asseverabat.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Testiculi	Testiculi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	Vaginae	Vaginae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	vulnere	vulnere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	certior	certior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	factus	factus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dixit	dixit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	Penem	Penem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
12	Vaginam	Vaginam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	sanare	sanare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	posse	posse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	si	si	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	_
16	verbis	verbis	X	FW	_	18	compound	_	_
17	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
18	obtemperet	obtemperet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	amod	_	_
21	Penis	Penis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	laetus	laetus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	se	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	velle	velle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	omnia	omnia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	facere	facere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	quae	quae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	conj	_	_
28	necesse	necesse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	essent	essent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	asseverabat	asseverabat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | et Penis laetus | velle omnia facere |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot facere=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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