Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 13

These large houses, thus protected by forts, were used by several different families, for the “long-houses” were divided into rooms by deerskins or other robes.

Who acts: several different families, deerskins · What happens: protect, use, divide · To what, where: large houses, long houses, rooms

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 (several different families, deerskins), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 houses	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 houses	amod
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 used	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 protected	punct
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 protected	advmod
6	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 houses	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 forts	case
8	forts	fort	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 protected	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 houses	punct
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 used	aux:pass
11	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 families	case
13	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 families	amod
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 families	amod
15	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 used	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 divided	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 divided	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 divided	det
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 houses	punct
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 houses	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
22	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 divided	nsubj:pass
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 houses	punct
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 divided	aux:pass
25	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 used	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 rooms	case
27	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 divided	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 deerskins	case
29	deerskins	deerskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 divided	obl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 robes	cc
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 robes	amod
32	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 deerskins	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	protect	participle		this large houses not said here		by forts; thus property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	use	past · passive	several different families	this large houses			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	divide	past · passive	deerskins or other robes	long houses	rooms		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 13