Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 9
As fast as the meats were dried and seasoned by sun and wind, she packed them carefully away in a large thick bag.
Who acts: mother · What happens: dry, season, pack · To what, where: meats, large thick bag
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 (mother), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 fast | advmod |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 dried | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 dried | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meats | det |
| 5 | meats | meat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dried | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dried | aux:pass |
| 7 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seasoned | cc |
| 9 | seasoned | season | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dried | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seasoned | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wind | cc |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sun | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 packed | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 packed | nsubj |
| 16 | packed | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dried | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 packed | obj |
| 18 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 19 away | advmod |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 packed | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bag | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bag | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bag | amod |
| 23 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bag | amod |
| 24 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 packed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past · passive | the meats | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | season | participle | by sun and wind | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pack | past | mother | meats = meat | a large thick bag | away property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bag=Destination |
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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