Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 11

These firmly tied bags of dried meat were laid upon the rocks in the walls of the dwelling.

Who acts: rocks · What happens: tie, dry, lay · To what, where: tied bags

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocks), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 bags	det
2	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	3 tied	advmod
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bags	amod
4	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laid	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 meat	case
6	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 meat	amod
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bags	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laid	aux:pass
9	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 rocks	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rocks	det
12	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laid	obl:agent
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 walls	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 walls	det
15	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rocks	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 dwelling	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dwelling	det
18	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walls	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tie	participle			firmly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	dry	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	lay	past · passive	the rocks in the walls of the dwelling	this tied bags of dried meat		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result

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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