--- title: XXXI. the Woman in the Moon — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: XXXI. the Woman in the Moon, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: (Algonquin) --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/56/) [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/) / XXXI. the Woman in the Moon # XXXI. the Woman in the Moon XXXI. the Woman in the Moon of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 15 sentences and 208 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. (Algonquin)[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") An old medicine woman lived with one tribe of the Algonquins.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") She knew all the plants that gave medicine; she could tell of things that would happen to her tribe or her family many moons before the things came to pass; but she did not know one thing.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") She did not know when this world would come to an end.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") She was forever asking the Great Spirit to tell her.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") A manitou was sent to her to make her stop asking.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") She said she would stop when her headband, which she was weaving, was done.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") The manitou said she must hide herself from her people or he could not answer her question.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") The question would be answered when the forehead strap was finished.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") She hid herself in the moon.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") There she sits weaving the headstrap.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") Once a month she stirs a great kettle of boiled corn that stands before her; while her two hands have hold of the stick, the cat which is always near her unravels her headstrap.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") She begins over again when the corn is stirred.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") There you can see her every night when the moon is full.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") She has never stopped asking, the manitou has never answered, and her weaving has never been finished.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/55/) - next →: [XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/57/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)