🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 70

The young men are gathered in another corner by themselves, eating roasted corn, and talking in whispers so as not to disturb their elders, for respect to age is the corner-stone of all Indian training.

Who acts: talking, respect · What happens: gather, eat, roast, talk, not disturb, be · To what, where: young men, corner, roasted corn, whispers, elders

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 (talking, respect), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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