🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 8

While the three Indians sat watching the river, they saw a white canoe coming straight toward the little hill where they sat. It seemed to come from the place of the setting sun.

Who acts: three Indians, Indians, white canoe · What happens: sit, watch, see, come, sat., seem · To what, where: river, little hill, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How He United the Five Nations. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three Indians, Indians, white canoe), 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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