Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 19

“Have no coward's doubt, Patkasa.

Who acts: coward · What happens: have, doubt · To what, where: doubt

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coward), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 coward	det
4	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doubt	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 coward	case
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Patkasa	punct
8	Patkasa	Patkasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 doubt	appos
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present		no coward's doubt					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient
2	doubt in a quote		no coward						nom doubt «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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