--- title: XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: (Iroquois) --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/57/) [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/) / XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades # XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 22 sentences and 256 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. (Iroquois)[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Seven little Iroquois boys were in the habit of carrying their dishes of succotash to the top of a little hill near their wigwams.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") They would sit on this little hill and eat their supper.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") When the succotash was all gone, then the best singer would sing while the other six would dance around the mound.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Every night they would do this.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") No other boys came with them.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") One night they planned to have a feast of soup.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Each boy was to bring a piece of meat.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") They would cook it on the hill and then fill their clay bowls with the soup.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Their parents would not give them the meat.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The boys had eaten nothing all day, but they took their empty bowls and had a mock feast.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") They piled their dry bowls after this empty feast and danced around the mound.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Their heads and their hearts were very light.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") They forgot their hunger.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") They danced faster than ever before; their feet left the ground and they were dancing in the air.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The six boys were around their leader who was singing.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Up, up, went the boys into the sky.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Their parents saw them and called to them to come back.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") They could not do it.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Whirling, floating, dancing, they took their places in the sky, where every one may see them.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") The leader stopped his singing and tried to return.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") As he was not content in the Great Star Wigwam, his light is not so bright as that of the six other stars.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [XXXI. the Woman in the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/56/) - next →: [XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/58/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)