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title: The Night Sun is cold and cannot hurt even an owl. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Night Sun is cold and cannot hurt even an owl. Who acts: Night Sun. 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 9

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The Night Sun is cold and cannot hurt even an owl.

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**Who acts:** Night Sun · **What happens:** be, not hurt · **To what, where:** owl

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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), 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:pg73136:84:9
# text = The Night Sun is cold and cannot hurt even an owl.
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	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Night Sun |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hurt** | can | the Night Sun *not said here* | a owl |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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