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title: While the North Star shines there is hope for those who wander in th… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: While the North Star shines there is hope for those who wander in the forest or on the wide lakes. Who acts: North Star. 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 50

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While the North Star shines there is hope for those who wander in the forest or on the wide lakes.

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**Who acts:** North Star · **What happens:** shine, be, wander · **To what, where:** hope, forest

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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 (North Star), 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:pg73136:52:50
# text = While the North Star shines there is hope for those who wander in the forest or on the wide lakes.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nmod	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wander	wander	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | present | the North Star |  |  | there |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | hope |  |  |  | for those | tree rules |
| 3 | **wander** | present |  |  |  | the forest or the wide lakes |  | who *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory |

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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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