🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 25

[6] The native hunters say that if you shout at an iguana he does not move or take any notice, but if you point at him and whisper, “Look, there is an iguana,” he will run away at once.

Who acts: 6 native hunters, you, water, iguana · What happens: say, shout, not move, take, point, whisper · To what, where: iguana, notice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (6 native hunters, you, water, iguana), 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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