Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 11
Sometimes several acres of land were enclosed, with many homes well protected both day and night from wild animals and other foes.
Who acts: many homes · What happens: enclose, protect · To what, where: several acres
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 (many homes), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 enclosed | advmod |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 acres | amod |
| 3 | acres | acre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 enclosed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 land | case |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 acres | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 enclosed | aux:pass |
| 7 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 protected | punct |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 protected | mark |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 homes | amod |
| 11 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 protected | nsubj |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 protected | advmod |
| 13 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 enclosed | conj |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 protected | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 night | cc |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 animals | case |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 animals | amod |
| 20 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 protected | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 foes | cc |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 foes | amod |
| 23 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 animals | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 enclosed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enclose | past · passive | several acres of land | sometimes property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | protect | past | many homes | day | from wild animals and other foes; well property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent from animal=Theme |
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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