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title: Nothing old or evil can live on the Woman’s Star. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing old or evil can live on the Woman’s Star. Who acts: Nothing. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 6

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Nothing old or evil can live on the Woman’s Star.

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**Who acts:** Nothing · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** Star

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing), 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:pg73136:60:6
# text = Nothing old or evil can live on the Woman’s Star.
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | can | Nothing |  |  | the Woman's Star |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on star=Location |

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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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