🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 78

They generally reply: “Black man ju-ju no be strong enough to hurt white man, but black man he go die one time.”

Who acts: goods, Black man, man · What happens: reply, ju, be, hurt, go, die · To what, where: white man, black man · 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 (goods, Black man, man), 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

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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