🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 67

The red-hot pot caused steam and mist to rise from the water, and it is still to be seen when the mornings are cold that mist rises from the river, and people say that this is caused by the red-hot pot which was placed over the shoulders of the wicked cripple when he was thrown into the water and the steam still continues to rise.

Who acts: hot pot, steam, mornings, that, people, red hot pot · What happens: cause, rise, be, say, place, throw · To what, where: steam, water, pot, river, this, red hot pot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hot pot, steam, mornings, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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