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title: Nec abnuit Vagina, sed se pauperem esse dicebat, et Penem debitum re… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Nec abnuit Vagina, sed se pauperem esse dicebat, et Penem debitum reddere alio tempore opportere. Who acts: Nec abnuit, et. 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
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 4

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Nec abnuit Vagina, sed se pauperem esse dicebat, et Penem debitum reddere alio tempore opportere.

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**Who acts:** Nec abnuit, et · **What happens:** s, be, reddere · **To what, where:** Nec abnuit, pauperem esse dicebat

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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 (Nec abnuit, 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:pg70959:27:4
# text = Nec abnuit Vagina, sed se pauperem esse dicebat, et Penem debitum reddere alio tempore opportere.
1	Nec	Nec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	abnuit	abnuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Vagina	Vagina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sed	s	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	se	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	pauperem	pauperem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	esse	esse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dicebat	dicebat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	nsubj	_	_
12	Penem	Penem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	debitum	debitum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	reddere	reddere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	alio	alio	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	_
16	tempore	tempore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	opportere	opportere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **s** | participle |  | Nec abnuit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | Nec abnuit | pauperem esse dicebat and Penem debitum reddere |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dicebat=Theme |
| 3 | **reddere** |  | 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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