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title: “Bono animo es” inquit Testiculi “ego enim a tergo vigilabo pro te n… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: “Bono animo es” inquit Testiculi “ego enim a tergo vigilabo pro te ne quid infaustum accidat.” 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 clause.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 19

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“Bono animo es” inquit Testiculi “ego enim a tergo vigilabo pro te ne quid infaustum accidat.”

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**To what, where:** animo es

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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:pg70959:27:19
# text = “Bono animo es” inquit Testiculi “ego enim a tergo vigilabo pro te ne quid infaustum accidat.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bono	Bono	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	animo	animo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	inquit	inquit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	Testiculi	Testiculi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ego	ego	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	enim	enim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	tergo	tergo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	vigilabo	vigilabo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	pro	pro	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	dep	_	_
15	te	te	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	quid	quid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	infaustum	infaustum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	accidat	accidat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	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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