Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 51

“Grandfather, what is it so tightly packed in all these buckskin bags placed against the tent poles?” he asked.

What happens: pack, place, ask · To what, where: rabbit, buckskin bags, tent poles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit. 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.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Grandfather	punct
2	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 packed	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 packed	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 packed	aux:pass
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 packed	nsubj:pass
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 tightly	advmod
8	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	9 packed	advmod
9	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Grandfather	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 bags	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 bags	det:predet
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 bags	det
13	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bags	compound
14	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 packed	obl
15	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 bags	acl
16	against	against	ADP	_	19 poles	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 poles	det
18	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 poles	compound
19	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 placed	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 packed	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Grandfather	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pack in a quote	present · passive	rabbit	all buckskin bags	tightly property	tree rules
2	place in a quote	participle	all buckskin bags not said here	the tent poles		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against pole=Destination
3	ask speech: ask	past				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (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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