🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 27

He told the chief that one daughter had let his pet bird fly away, and when he flogged her the mother had threatened to leave him and to take the children with her.

Who acts: Agbor, pet bird · What happens: tell, let, fly away, flog, threaten, leave · To what, where: chief, one daughter, Awo, mother, Agbor, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Agbor, pet bird), 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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