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title: The moon maiden had a great bow that she hung in the sky at night an… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon maiden had a great bow that she hung in the sky at night and played with in the daytime. Who acts: moon maiden, maiden. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 24

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The moon maiden had a great bow that she hung in the sky at night and played with in the daytime.

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**Who acts:** moon maiden, maiden · **What happens:** have, hang, play · **To what, where:** great bow, sky

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon maiden, maiden), 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:pg73136:67:24
# text = The moon maiden had a great bow that she hung in the sky at night and played with in the daytime.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	daytime	daytime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the moon maiden | a great bow |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Patient |
| 2 | **hang** | past | maiden |  |  | the sky | night |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sky=Location |
| 3 | **play** | past | maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the daytime | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with daytime=Theme |

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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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