🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 6

Perhaps you would like to know _why_ those lakes are salt now--for my Indian neighbors say that once they were fresh and full of fish, and that the deer and buffalo came from all the country round to drink there.

Who acts: you, lakes, Indian neighbors, neighbors, deer · What happens: like, know, be, say, come, drink · To what, where: salt, country · 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 Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lakes, Indian neighbors, neighbors), 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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