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title: Patkasa was always ready to believe the words of scheming people and… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 37

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Patkasa was always ready to believe the words of scheming people and to do the little favors any one asked of him.

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**Who acts:** Patkasa, one · **What happens:** be, believe, scheme, do, ask, word · **To what, where:** words, little favors, scheming people

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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.

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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:pg338:10:37
# text = Patkasa was always ready to believe the words of scheming people and to do the little favors any one asked of him.
1	Patkasa	Patkasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	scheming	scheme	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	favors	favor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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