Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 26

It was too late now to say no. Patkasa was more afraid of being called a coward than of losing the deer.

Who acts: It, Patkasa · What happens: be, call, lose · To what, where: coward, deer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (It, Patkasa), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 say	advmod
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 say	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	no.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	7 say	obj
9	Patkasa	Patkasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 afraid	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	cop
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 afraid	advmod
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 called	mark
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 called	aux:pass
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 afraid	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 coward	det
17	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 losing	mark
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 losing	mark
20	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 called	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 deer	det
22	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 losing	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	past	It		now	late, say property	tree rules
2	is	past	Patkasa			afraid property	tree rules
3	call	gerund · passive	Patkasa not said here	a coward			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
4	lose	gerund	Patkasa not said here	the deer			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Eventuality

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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