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title: White men call this star near Mukwa the Great Bear, the North Star. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: White men call this star near Mukwa the Great Bear, the North Star. Who acts: White men. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 45

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White men call this star near Mukwa the Great Bear, the North Star.

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**Who acts:** White men · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** star, Mukwa · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (White men), 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:pg73136:52:45
# text = White men call this star near Mukwa the Great Bear, the North Star.
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mukwa	Mukwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | White men | this star |  | Mukwa |  | the Great Bear *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent star=Recipient |

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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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