--- title: XV. the Sun and the Moon — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: XV. the Sun and the Moon, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: (Dakota, 1894) --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/84/) [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/) / XV. the Sun and the Moon # XV. the Sun and the Moon XV. the Sun and the Moon of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 34 sentences and 486 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. (Dakota, 1894)[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") The Day Sun has a twin brother that is white.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He is not a strong warrior like the Day Sun, who is as red as war paint.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") The Day Sun can make an Indian fall down in the hot days of summer.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indian is made weak by the arrows the Day Sun makes in the summer morning.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Sometimes he lets you see these arrows.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") They are very long.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") They are around his head like the war bonnet of a very great chief.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") The Night Sun is cold and cannot hurt even an owl.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") He has to do all the things his twin brother tells him to do.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") He is not strong, and he breaks to pieces trying to do so much.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") He hides his face and tries to go away, but he always comes back and is glad to start again.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") The strong Day Sun comes every morning from the wigwam of Hannanna the Morning Light.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") This wigwam is made of the smoke of burning rivers.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") You can see this smoke go up from the water if you will sit still and watch.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The Day Sun can burn up a little river.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") He paints the smoke of the rivers with rainbows that have come and gone.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") They are saved to make the Place of the Morning Light so beautiful that men will watch for the coming of the Day Sun.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") All the animals and the birds call to Hannanna in the morning to open the door of his wigwam and let the red light come.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") There is no war paint on the land that is as red as the Day Sun. When Hannanna has his wigwam by the water you can see more than when it is over the land.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") The Day Sun is happy by the water.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") When the red warrior of the sky goes out of sight in the west he rides in a canoe behind the trees and hills to his place in the east.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") On his way he talks to the Night Sun. You cannot see the canoe of the Day Sun.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The Night Sun does not care if men see that he rides in a canoe like an Indian.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") He comes from the White Land in the east.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") He walks over the Bridge of Stars, the pathway of the spirits.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") The Night Sun helps the spirits that walk on this path to the happy Summer Land.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") He does much good.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") The Day Sun makes the corn grow.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") He makes all the seeds and the trees grow when it is summer.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") The Night Sun has to take care of them when he is gone.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indians dance the sun dance when the Night Sun is round and white.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") He looks at the Indians and tells his brother of the dance.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") The Day Sun is glad to know that the Indians give thanks for his gifts to them.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/83/) - next →: [XVI. Custer’s Heart](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/85/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)