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title: The star saw her shadow and the shadows of her sky sisters in the wa… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The star saw her shadow and the shadows of her sky sisters in the water, and she rested like a canoe upon the water. Who acts: star, breeze. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 37

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The star saw her shadow and the shadows of her sky sisters in the water, and she rested like a canoe upon the water.

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**Who acts:** star, breeze · **What happens:** see, rest, shadow · **To what, where:** shadow, water, sky sisters

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (star, breeze), 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:pg73136:61:37
# text = The star saw her shadow and the shadows of her sky sisters in the water, and she rested like a canoe upon the water.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the star | breeze's shadow and the shadows of breeze's sky sisters in the water |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rest** | past | breeze |  |  | the water |  | like a canoe | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent upon water=Location |
| 3 | **shadow** |  | breeze |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **shadow** |  |  | breeze's sky sisters in the water |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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