🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 32

Shortly after this the tortoise came down to see what was the matter, and he found the ju-ju man preparing to cut the baby’s head off, and Achi weeping and imploring him to spare her new-born baby.

Who acts: tortoise, matter, ju ju man · What happens: come down, see, find, prepare, cut off, implore · To what, where: ju ju man, head, man, born baby

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tortoise, matter, ju ju man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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