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title: The end would come, for the sun could never shine again without Mena… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The end would come, for the sun could never shine again without Menabozho to guide it from the east to the west. Who acts: end, sun. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 28

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The end would come, for the sun could never shine again without Menabozho to guide it from the east to the west.

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**Who acts:** end, sun · **What happens:** come, not shine, guide · **To what, where:** sun, east

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, sun), 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:pg73136:70:28
# text = The end would come, for the sun could never shine again without Menabozho to guide it from the east to the west.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | would | the end |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **shine** | could | the sun |  |  |  | again | without Menabozho | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **guide** | to-infinitive | the sun *not said here* | sun |  | the east |  | to the west | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme from east=Destination |

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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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