Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 91

Have pity on me, young brave, and shoot yonder bird for me!”

What happens: have · To what, where: pity

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Have	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Have	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brave	punct
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brave	amod
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Have	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shoot	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shoot	cc
10	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brave	conj
11	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	12 bird	advmod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shoot	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 shoot	nmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Have	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present		pity				on me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=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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