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title: The fires burned through the logs in about half a day. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The fires burned through the logs in about half a day. Who acts: fires. 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 4

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The fires burned through the logs in about half a day.

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**Who acts:** fires · **What happens:** burn · **To what, where:** logs

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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 (fires), 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:pg73136:7:4
# text = The fires burned through the logs in about half a day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past | the fires |  |  | the logs | day |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through log=Location |

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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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