🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 1

The French explorers in the land near Lake Champlain, and in what is now central New York, found many of the Iroquois villages protected by strong, well-built log forts.

Who acts: central New York · What happens: be, find, protect, build · To what, where: central New York, many, Iroquois villages, French explorers

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (central New York), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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