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title: Paullo postea Vagina haud procul ab aedibus Penis ligna capite fereb… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Paullo postea Vagina haud procul ab aedibus Penis ligna capite ferebat, et, debiti memor, domum ejus aggressa, “Esurio” inquit “O Penis, cum totam diem haec ligna collegi, nec mihi cibum parare potui. Who acts: Penis, cum, nec mihi. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinst
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 6

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Paullo postea Vagina haud procul ab aedibus Penis ligna capite ferebat, et, debiti memor, domum ejus aggressa, “Esurio” inquit “O Penis, cum totam diem haec ligna collegi, nec mihi cibum parare potui.

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**Who acts:** Penis, cum, nec mihi · **What happens:** ferebat, haec, potui · **To what, where:** Paullo postea

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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 (Penis, cum, nec mihi), 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:pg70959:27:6
# text = Paullo postea Vagina haud procul ab aedibus Penis ligna capite ferebat, et, debiti memor, domum ejus aggressa, “Esurio” inquit “O Penis, cum totam diem haec ligna collegi, nec mihi cibum parare potui.
1	Paullo	Paullo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	postea	postea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Vagina	Vagina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	haud	haud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	procul	procul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	ab	ab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	aedibus	aedibus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	Penis	Penis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	ligna	ligna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	capite	capite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ferebat	ferebat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	debiti	debiti	X	FW	_	16	compound	_	_
16	memor	memor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	domum	domum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	ejus	ejus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	aggressa	aggressa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Esurio	Esurio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	inquit	inquit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
28	Penis	Penis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	cum	cum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	totam	totam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	diem	diem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	haec	haec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
34	ligna	ligna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	dep	_	_
35	collegi	collegi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	nec	nec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	mihi	mihi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	cibum	cibum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	parare	parare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	potui	potui	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ferebat** |  | Penis |  |  |  |  | debiti memor *conj*; domum ejus aggressa and inquit *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **haec** *in a quote* |  | cum |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **potui** *in a quote* |  | nec mihi |  |  |  |  |  | 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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