---
title: His daily visits were so regular that mother badger placed a fur rug… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: His daily visits were so regular that mother badger placed a fur rug in his place. Who acts: daily visits, mother badger, crackling. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/7/47/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Old Indian Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/) / [The Badger and the Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/7/) / 47

# Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 47

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His daily visits were so regular that mother badger placed a fur rug in his place.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** daily visits, mother badger, crackling · **What happens:** be, place, visit · **To what, where:** fur rug, place

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (daily visits, mother badger, crackling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg338:7:47
# text = His daily visits were so regular that mother badger placed a fur rug in his place.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	rug	rug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | crackling's daily visits |  |  |  |  | regular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **place** | past | mother badger | a fur rug |  | crackling's place |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rug=Theme in place=Destination |
| 3 | **visit** |  | crackling |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/7/46/)
- next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/7/48/)
- ↑ back to [The Badger and the Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/7/)