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title: The Night Sun helps the spirits that walk on this path to the happy… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Night Sun helps the spirits that walk on this path to the happy Summer Land. Who acts: Night Sun, spirits. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Sun and the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 27

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The Night Sun helps the spirits that walk on this path to the happy Summer Land.

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**Who acts:** Night Sun, spirits · **What happens:** help, walk · **To what, where:** spirits, path

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Sun and 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 (Night Sun, spirits), 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:pg73136:84:27
# text = The Night Sun helps the spirits that walk on this path to the happy Summer Land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Night	Night	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | the Night Sun | the spirits |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **walk** | present | the spirits |  |  | this path |  | to the happy Summer Land *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to land=Result |

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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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