🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 57

After the usual salutations have been exchanged, he will make his complaint, which when translated by the interpreter will be something like the following: “My father and father (grandfather) catch one man goat and one woman goat.

Who acts: object, something, interpreter, father · What happens: exchange, make, translate, be, follow, catch · To what, where: usual salutations, complaint, something, one man goat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (object, something, interpreter, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

Pragmatics

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