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title: Some of these rude dwellings were more than one hundred feet in leng… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of these rude dwellings were more than one hundred feet in length, and were made of poles bent like an arch and covered closely with many layers of elm bark. Who acts: Some. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Fo
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 12

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Some of these rude dwellings were more than one hundred feet in length, and were made of poles bent like an arch and covered closely with many layers of elm bark.

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**Who acts:** Some · **What happens:** be, make, bend, cover · **To what, where:** hundred feet, length, poles

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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 (Some), 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:pg73136:7:12
# text = Some of these rude dwellings were more than one hundred feet in length, and were made of poles bent like an arch and covered closely with many layers of elm bark.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	10	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
26	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	elm	elm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Some of this rude dwellings | hundred feet |  | length |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | hundred feet *not said here* |  |  |  | of poles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 3 | **bend** | participle |  | poles *not said here* |  |  |  | like a arch | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with many layers of elm bark; closely *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with layer=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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