Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 12

Some of these rude dwellings were more than one hundred feet in length, and were made of poles bent like an arch and covered closely with many layers of elm bark.

Who acts: Some · What happens: be, make, bend, cover · To what, where: hundred feet, length, poles

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 (Some), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 feet	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 dwellings	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 dwellings	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dwellings	amod
5	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Some	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 feet	cop
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	10 hundred	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 more	fixed
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hundred	compound
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 feet	nummod
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 length	case
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feet	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	aux:pass
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 feet	acl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 poles	case
19	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	obl
20	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 poles	acl
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 arch	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 arch	det
23	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bent	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 covered	cc
25	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 made	conj
26	closely	closely	ADV	_	25 covered	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 layers	case
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 layers	amod
29	layers	layer	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 covered	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 bark	case
31	elm	elm	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bark	compound
32	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 layers	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 feet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Some of this rude dwellings	hundred feet	length		tree rules
2	make	past · passive		hundred feet not said here		of poles	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
3	bend	participle		poles not said here		like a arch	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cover	participle				with many layers of elm bark; closely property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with layer=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 12