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title: Sometimes several acres of land were enclosed, with many homes well… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes several acres of land were enclosed, with many homes well protected both day and night from wild animals and other foes. Who acts: many homes. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, with its dependency t
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 11

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Sometimes several acres of land were enclosed, with many homes well protected both day and night from wild animals and other foes.

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**Who acts:** many homes · **What happens:** enclose, protect · **To what, where:** several acres

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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 (many homes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:7:11
# text = Sometimes several acres of land were enclosed, with many homes well protected both day and night from wild animals and other foes.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
2	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	acres	acre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	enclosed	enclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	protected	protect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enclose** | past · passive |  | several acres of land |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **protect** | past | many homes |  |  |  | day | from wild animals and other foes; well *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent from animal=Theme |

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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.

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**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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