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title: After the trees had fallen to the ground they were set on fire again… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: After the trees had fallen to the ground they were set on fire again, in places about three long steps apart. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Iroquois Built Their Log Forts, sentence 3

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After the trees had fallen to the ground they were set on fire again, in places about three long steps apart.

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**What happens:** fall, set · **To what, where:** trees, fire

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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: 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:pg73136:7:3
# text = After the trees had fallen to the ground they were set on fire again, in places about three long steps apart.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | after the trees |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | past · passive |  | trees *= tree* |  | fire | again | to the ground; in places | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on fire=Destination |

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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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