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title: “Grandfather, what is it so tightly packed in all these buckskin bag… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Grandfather, what is it so tightly packed in all these buckskin bags placed against the tent poles?” he asked. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 51

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:14:51
# text = “Grandfather, what is it so tightly packed in all these buckskin bags placed against the tent poles?” he asked.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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