🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 97

But as the boy was wondering what he should do, the tiny fish changed itself into a great Fish-Animal with a very hard, strong skin,[70] and bidding the boy mount upon its back, it went plowing through the forest, breaking down big trees like stubble, and bringing him through to the other side without a scratch.

Who acts: boy, tiny fish, fish · What happens: wonder, do, change, bid, go, plow · To what, where: fish, boy mount, forest, big trees, boy, other side · 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 (boy, tiny fish, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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