🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 25

She then took the hare to her house at the bottom of the river, where she introduced him to her husband, and said, “This man can paint our children, and make them look nice to all people.”

Who acts: risk, man, children · What happens: take, introduce, say, paint, make, look · To what, where: hare, bottom, fish, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (risk, man, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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