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title: (Told by Ennenni, a singing and dancing girl of Okuni. — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: (Told by Ennenni, a singing and dancing girl of Okuni. 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 25

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(Told by Ennenni, a singing and dancing girl of Okuni.

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**What happens:** tell, dance · **To what, where:** girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg70959:27:25
# text = (Told by Ennenni, a singing and dancing girl of Okuni.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ennenni	Ennenni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Okuni	Okuni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Ennenni *obl:agent* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dance** | gerund |  | girl of Okuni |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location girl=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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