🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 15

It seemed strange to the traveler for the Indian to take so much pains with the colors of paint and the place where he put them upon his face, but it is now known that each color has its meaning with them.

Who acts: It, traveler, color, paint · What happens: seem, take, put, know, have, mean · To what, where: much pains, pains, face, paint, meaning · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, traveler, color, paint), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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