🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 12

Sometimes it was Kéem-ee-deh, king of the four-feet, who came to the feast Sun-Arrow had made; and sometimes Kahr-naí-deh, the Badger, who is best of all to dig, and who showed Those of Old how to make their caves; and sometimes the smaller ones.

Who acts: game, four feet, feast, Kahr naí deh, Old · What happens: be, come, make, dig, show · To what, where: Kéem ee deh, feast, Sun, Those, caves

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 (game, four feet, feast, Kahr naí deh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

Pragmatics

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