🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 2

They were built in this way: The Indians first found a place where there were many tall trees; these were set on fire near their roots, and stone axes were used to rub off the coals, so they would burn faster.

Who acts: Indians, many tall trees, explorers · What happens: build, find, be, set, use, rub off · To what, where: explorers, way, place, these, fire, stone axes

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 (Indians, many tall trees, explorers), 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

Pragmatics

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