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title: Penis forte ad villam Vaginae vagatus, et fame afflictus, illam palm… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Penis forte ad villam Vaginae vagatus, et fame afflictus, illam palmae nuces, quas nuper in horto collegerat, rogavit, scilicet quod ipse totam diem in agro laborasset nec sibi cibum parare potuisset. Who acts: illam nuces. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayre
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 3

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Penis forte ad villam Vaginae vagatus, et fame afflictus, illam palmae nuces, quas nuper in horto collegerat, rogavit, scilicet quod ipse totam diem in agro laborasset nec sibi cibum parare potuisset.

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**Who acts:** illam nuces · **What happens:** quod · **To what, where:** ipse totam diem, agro laborasset nec, villam Vaginae vagatus

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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 (illam nuces), 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:pg70959:27:3
# text = Penis forte ad villam Vaginae vagatus, et fame afflictus, illam palmae nuces, quas nuper in horto collegerat, rogavit, scilicet quod ipse totam diem in agro laborasset nec sibi cibum parare potuisset.
1	Penis	Penis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	forte	forte	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	ad	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	villam	villam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Vaginae	Vaginae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	vagatus	vagatus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	et	et	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	afflictus	afflictus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	illam	illam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	palmae	palmae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	dep	_	_
14	nuces	nuce	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	quas	qua	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	nuper	nuper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	horto	horto	X	FW	_	20	compound	_	_
20	collegerat	collegerat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	rogavit	rogavit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	scilicet	scilicet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
25	quod	quod	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	ipse	ipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	totam	totam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	diem	diem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	agro	agro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	laborasset	laborasset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	nec	nec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	sibi	sibi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	conj	_	_
34	cibum	cibum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	parare	parare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	potuisset	potuisset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quod** | present | illam nuces and quas nuper in horto collegerat and rogavit and scilicet | ipse totam diem |  | agro laborasset nec |  |  | 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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