Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 22

Houses such as he had told about would be blown down by the great winds.

Who acts: buffalo, great winds · What happens: tell, blow down · To what, where: Houses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buffalo, great winds), 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	Houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blown	nsubj:pass
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	6 told	mark
3	as	as	ADP	_	2 such	fixed
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Houses	acl
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 told	advmod
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 blown	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 blown	aux:pass
10	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 blown	compound:prt
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 winds	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 winds	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 winds	amod
15	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blown	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 blown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	buffalo	Houses not said here				about property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient
2	blow down	would · passive	the great winds	Houses					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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, Indian Traits, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 22