Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 5
As there were no horses, the logs were drawn by the Indians, and then put into place.
Who acts: horses, Indians · What happens: be, draw, put · To what, where: logs, place
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 (horses, Indians), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 were | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drawn | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 horses | det |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 logs | det |
| 8 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drawn | aux:pass |
| 10 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Indians | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Indians | det |
| 13 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 drawn | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 put | advmod |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 drawn | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no horses | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past · passive | the Indians | the logs | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | the Indians not said here | place | then | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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