🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon, sentence 12

Once a month she stirs a great kettle of boiled corn that stands before her; while her two hands have hold of the stick, the cat which is always near her unravels her headstrap.

Who acts: question, boiled corn, two hands, cat · What happens: stir, boil, stand, have, be, hold · To what, where: great kettle, hold, stick

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question, boiled corn, two hands, cat), 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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