Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 37
Patkasa was always ready to believe the words of scheming people and to do the little favors any one asked of him.
Who acts: Patkasa, one · What happens: be, believe, scheme, do, ask, word · To what, where: words, little favors, scheming people
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 (Patkasa, one), 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 | Patkasa | Patkasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 ready | advmod |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 believe | mark |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ready | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 believe | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 10 | scheming | scheme | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 words | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 do | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 believe | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 favors | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 favors | amod |
| 17 | favors | favor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 do | obj |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 favors | acl:relcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Patkasa | always, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive | Patkasa not said here | the words of scheming people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | scheme | gerund | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Patkasa not said here | the little favors | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favor=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | any one | the little favors not said here | of Patkasa | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favor=Recipient | |||
| 6 | word | scheming people | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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