🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 8

He knew the lost one was very weak and hungry, for the last fox picture had three circles to show that he had been lost three days, and other marks to show that he had shot nothing.

Who acts: rain, lost one, last fox picture · What happens: know, lose, be, have, show, shoot · To what, where: three circles, rain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, lost one, last fox picture), 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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