🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 1

I FANCY that if almost any of us were asked, “When did people begin to make fairy stories?” our first thought would be, “Why, of course, after mankind had become civilized, and had invented writing.”

Who acts: I, first thought, mankind, our · What happens: fancy, ask, begin, make, be, become · To what, where: any, fairy stories, writing · 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 Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, first thought, mankind, our), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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