Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 3

After the trees had fallen to the ground they were set on fire again, in places about three long steps apart.

What happens: fall, set · To what, where: trees, fire

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: 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 trees	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fallen	obl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fallen	aux
5	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 set	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 set	aux:pass
11	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fallen	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 fire	case
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl
14	again	again	ADV	_	11 set	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 places	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 places	case
17	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 set	obl
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 three	advmod
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 steps	nummod
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 steps	amod
21	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 apart	obl:unmarked
22	apart	apart	ADV	_	17 places	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect					after the trees		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	set	past · passive		trees = tree		fire	again	to the ground; in places	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on fire=Destination

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 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 3