🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head., sentence 21

The elephant at once guessed that it was the crab who had filled up his drinking pond, and being in a furious rage, he cut the crab’s head off and threw him into the pond.

Who acts: elephant, mud, crab · What happens: guess, be, fill up, cut off, throw · To what, where: crab, drinking pond, furious rage, head, elephant, pond · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elephant, mud, crab), 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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