🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 16

Then, in the naïve custom of the Tée-wahn, bashful fingers worked wondrous fringed shirts of buckskin, or gay awl-sheaths, which found their way to his house by unknown messengers--each as much as to say, “She who made this is yours, if you will have her.”

Who acts: bashful fingers, gay awl sheaths, wahn, this, you · What happens: work, fringe, find, say, make, be · To what, where: wondrous fringed shirts, naïve custom, way, yours, wahn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married 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 (bashful fingers, gay awl sheaths, wahn, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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