Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 58

Try me this once again!” he pleaded in vain.

Who acts: you, bird · What happens: try, plead · To what, where: me, vain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bird), 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	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Try	obj
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 me	det
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 again	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	1 Try	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pleaded	nsubj
9	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 vain	case
11	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pleaded	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	me			again		tree rules
2	plead speech: request in a quote	past	bird			vain			tree rules

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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