Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 137

After placing it near the sacred stones, he sat down beside it.

Who acts: father · What happens: place, sit down · To what, where: blessing, sacred stones

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 (father), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 placing	mark
2	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sat	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placing	obj
4	near	near	ADP	_	7 stones	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stones	det
6	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stones	amod
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 placing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 placing	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	gerund	father not said here	blessing		the sacred stones			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme near stone=Destination
2	sit down	past	father			blessing			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location

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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