🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 1

WHEN it came old Anastacio’s turn, one night, to tell a story to the waiting circle, it was several minutes before he responded to the quaint summons; and at last Lorenso repeated: “There is a tail to you, _compadre_ Anastacio!”

Who acts: it, story, he · What happens: come, tell, be, respond, repeat · To what, where: Anastacio turn, story, waiting circle, several minutes, last Lorenso, tail · 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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, story, he), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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