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title: There was another giant who lived near Narragansett Bay. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: There was another giant who lived near Narragansett Bay. Who acts: giant. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 17

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There was another giant who lived near Narragansett Bay.

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**Who acts:** giant · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** Narragansett Bay

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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:pg73136:33:17
# text = There was another giant who lived near Narragansett Bay.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Narragansett	Narragansett	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | another giant |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past |  |  |  | Narragansett Bay |  | who *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near bay=Location |

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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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