🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 44

The Blackfeet looked on at this terrible butchery of their friend with horror, but in stolid silence, all save Su-yé-sai-pi, who gave a frightened cry when she saw the poor fellow struck down, and, clasping her husband by the arm, buried her face in his breast.

Who acts: Blackfeet, Su, sai pi · What happens: look on, save, pi, give, see, strike down · To what, where: stolid silence, frightened cry, poor fellow, husband, face, breast

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blackfeet, Su, sai pi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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