Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 6

This mountain was the home of a stone giant; all but three hunters were destroyed by the falling stones which he threw.

Who acts: mountain, falling stones · What happens: be, destroy, fall, throw · To what, where: home, three hunters

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain, falling stones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 mountain	det
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 home	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 home	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 home	det
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 giant	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 giant	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 giant	compound
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 home	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 destroyed	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 hunters	det
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 hunters	cc
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hunters	nummod
14	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 destroyed	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 destroyed	aux:pass
16	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 home	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 stones	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stones	det
19	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 stones	amod
20	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 destroyed	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 threw	nsubj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	nsubj
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stones	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 home	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this mountain	the home	of a stone giant	tree rules
2	destroy	past · passive	the falling stones	all three hunters		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	fall	gerund				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	throw	past	the falling stones		giant nsubj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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.

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 6