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title: She waited for him halfway on the Bridge of Souls, made by the stars… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: She waited for him halfway on the Bridge of Souls, made by the stars which are a white pathway to the Happy Hunting Grounds. Who acts: Memainggwah, stars. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, with its dependency tree 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 44

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She waited for him halfway on the Bridge of Souls, made by the stars which are a white pathway to the Happy Hunting Grounds.

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**Who acts:** Memainggwah, stars · **What happens:** wait, make, be · **To what, where:** Bridge, white pathway

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Memainggwah, stars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:52:44
# text = She waited for him halfway on the Bridge of Souls, made by the stars which are a white pathway to the Happy Hunting Grounds.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Souls	Soul	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | Memainggwah |  |  | the Bridge of Souls |  | for Keneu; halfway *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bridge=Location |
| 2 | **make** | participle | Memainggwah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the stars | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the stars | a white pathway |  |  |  | to the Happy Hunting Grounds | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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