🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 8

When all the Tée-wahn warriors had fallen asleep, the Mice came stealing down the big ladder into the room, and creeping from sleeper to sleeper, they gnawed every bowstring and cut the feathers from the arrows and the strap of every sling.

Who acts: Tée wahn warriors, Mice, warriors · What happens: fall, come, steal, creep, gnaw, cut · To what, where: room, sleeper, bowstring, feathers, arrows

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The War-dance of the Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tée wahn warriors, Mice, warriors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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