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title: Penis tamen noluit, et Vagina iterum vehementius nuces postulabat; d… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Penis tamen noluit, et Vagina iterum vehementius nuces postulabat; deinde, cum se nihil profiteri sentiret, ligna in terram irata dejecit, seque insuper prostravit. Who acts: Vagina iterum vehementius, Penis tamen noluit. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 8

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Penis tamen noluit, et Vagina iterum vehementius nuces postulabat; deinde, cum se nihil profiteri sentiret, ligna in terram irata dejecit, seque insuper prostravit.

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**Who acts:** Vagina iterum vehementius, Penis tamen noluit · **What happens:** nuce, be · **To what, where:** postulabat, nihil profiteri sentiret

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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 (Vagina iterum vehementius, Penis tamen noluit), 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:pg70959:27:8
# text = Penis tamen noluit, et Vagina iterum vehementius nuces postulabat; deinde, cum se nihil profiteri sentiret, ligna in terram irata dejecit, seque insuper prostravit.
1	Penis	Penis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	tamen	tamen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	noluit	noluit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	Vagina	Vagina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	iterum	iterum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	vehementius	vehementius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	nuces	nuce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	postulabat	postulabat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	deinde	deinde	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	cum	cum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	se	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	nihil	nihil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	profiteri	profiteri	X	FW	_	18	compound	_	_
18	sentiret	sentiret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	ligna	ligna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	terram	terram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	irata	irata	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	dejecit	dejecit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	seque	seque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	insuper	insuper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	prostravit	prostravit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nuce** | present | Vagina iterum vehementius | postulabat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | Penis tamen noluit and cum | nihil profiteri sentiret and ligna in terram irata dejecit and insuper prostravit |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sentiret=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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