Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 8

In making the fire to burn the logs, a small dry stick was quickly rubbed with a steady motion against well-seasoned wood; after a while it would burn.

Who acts: stick · What happens: make, burn, rub · To what, where: fire, logs, small dry stick

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 (stick), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 making	mark
2	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 rubbed	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 making	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 burn	mark
6	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 making	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 logs	det
8	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 burn	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 making	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stick	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stick	amod
12	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stick	amod
13	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rubbed	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rubbed	aux:pass
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	16 rubbed	advmod
16	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 motion	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 motion	det
19	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 motion	amod
20	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rubbed	obl
21	against	against	ADP	_	25 wood	case
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 seasoned	advmod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 well	punct
24	seasoned	seasoned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wood	amod
25	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 motion	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 burn	punct
27	after	after	ADP	_	29 while	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 while	det
29	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 burn	obl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 burn	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 burn	aux
32	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 rubbed	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		the fire			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product
2	burn	to-infinitive		the logs			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent log=Theme
3	rub	past · passive		a small dry stick		with a steady motion against seasoned wood; quickly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with motion=Theme
4	burn	would	stick		while		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 8