Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 10
On the shores of the beautiful Seneca Lake, by the banks of the Mohawk and Genesee rivers, in the forests of Oneida and Cayuga, and in many other parts of this fertile region, these strongholds of a savage people stood secure.
Who acts: strongholds · What happens: stand · To what, where: shores
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 (strongholds), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 shores | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shores | det |
| 3 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Lake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lake | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Lake | amod |
| 7 | Seneca | Seneca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lake | compound |
| 8 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shores | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 banks | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 banks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 banks | det |
| 12 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shores | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rivers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rivers | det |
| 15 | Mohawk | Mohawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 rivers | compound |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Genesee | cc |
| 17 | Genesee | Genesee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Mohawk | conj |
| 18 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 banks | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forests | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 forests | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forests | det |
| 22 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rivers | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Oneida | case |
| 24 | Oneida | Oneida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 forests | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Cayuga | cc |
| 26 | Cayuga | Cayuga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Oneida | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 stood | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 stood | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 parts | case |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 parts | amod |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 parts | amod |
| 32 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 stood | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 region | case |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 region | det |
| 35 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 region | amod |
| 36 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 parts | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 strongholds | punct |
| 38 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 strongholds | det |
| 39 | strongholds | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 stood | nsubj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 people | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 people | det |
| 42 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 people | amod |
| 43 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 strongholds | nmod |
| 44 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 45 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 stood | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | this strongholds of a savage people | the shores of the beautiful Seneca Lake and the banks of the Mohawk rivers and the forests of Oneida and Cayuga | in many other parts of this fertile region; secure property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location |
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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