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title: At Vagina medicinam sibi magnopere profuisse dixit, et Penem precata… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: At Vagina medicinam sibi magnopere profuisse dixit, et Penem precata est ut omni quaque nocte veniret eodem modo vulnus sanaturus. Who acts: sibi, et. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., with its dependency
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 21

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At Vagina medicinam sibi magnopere profuisse dixit, et Penem precata est ut omni quaque nocte veniret eodem modo vulnus sanaturus.

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**Who acts:** sibi, et · **What happens:** dixit, ut · **To what, where:** Vagina medicinam

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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 (sibi, et), 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:pg70959:27:21
# text = At Vagina medicinam sibi magnopere profuisse dixit, et Penem precata est ut omni quaque nocte veniret eodem modo vulnus sanaturus.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Vagina	Vagina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	medicinam	medicinam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	sibi	sibi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	nsubj	_	_
5	magnopere	magnopere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	profuisse	profuisse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dixit	dixit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
10	Penem	Penem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	precata	precata	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	est	est	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ut	ut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	omni	omni	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	nsubj	_	_
15	quaque	quaque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	nocte	nocte	X	FW	_	18	compound	_	_
17	veniret	veniret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	eodem	eodem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	modo	modo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	conj	_	_
20	vulnus	vulnus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sanaturus	sanaturus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dixit** |  | sibi |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ut** |  | et |  |  |  |  |  | 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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