---
title: The sister sat with the brother and watched the sun go down in the B… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The sister sat with the brother and watched the sun go down in the Big Sea Water. Who acts: sister, sun. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/55/12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / [XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/55/) / 12

# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 12

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The sister sat with the brother and watched the sun go down in the Big Sea Water.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** sister, sun · **What happens:** sit, watch, go down

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:55:12
# text = The sister sat with the brother and watched the sun go down in the Big Sea Water.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Big	Big	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the sister |  |  |  |  | with the brother | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | past | the sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go down** | infinitive | the sun |  |  |  |  | in the Big Sea Water; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in water=Attribute |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/55/11/)
- next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/55/13/)
- ↑ back to [XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/55/)