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title: “At si quidam” inquit Penis “inimicus mihi gladio instabit jam in vu… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: “At si quidam” inquit Penis “inimicus mihi gladio instabit jam in vulnere condito, inopinantem interficere poterit.” A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 18

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“At si quidam” inquit Penis “inimicus mihi gladio instabit jam in vulnere condito, inopinantem interficere poterit.”

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**To what, where:** inquit

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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: 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:pg70959:27:18
# text = “At si quidam” inquit Penis “inimicus mihi gladio instabit jam in vulnere condito, inopinantem interficere poterit.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	si	si	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	quidam	quidam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	inquit	inquit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	Penis	Penis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	inimicus	inimicus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	mihi	mihi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gladio	gladio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	instabit	instabit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	vulnere	vulnere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	condito	condito	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	inopinantem	inopinantem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	interficere	interficere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	poterit	poterit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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