🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 27

If you find him again he will be killed easily, as he cannot run so far a second time; there is, therefore, a second saying amongst the hunters that “A first run is a run for life, and when you are in danger you should run as far as you can before you stop to rest, as when you run the second time you will not be able to go so far.”

Who acts: you, iguana, that · What happens: find, kill, not run, be, run, stop · To what, where: iguana, second saying, run, danger, second time

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 (you, iguana, that), 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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