Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 4
The fires burned through the logs in about half a day.
Who acts: fires · What happens: burn · To what, where: logs
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 (fires), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fires | det |
| 2 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 burned | nsubj |
| 3 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 logs | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 logs | det |
| 6 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 burned | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 half | advmod |
| 9 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 11 day | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burned | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | the fires | the logs | day | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through log=Location |
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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