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title: Try me this once again!” he pleaded in vain. — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Try me this once again!” he pleaded in vain. Who acts: you, bird. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 58

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

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

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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.

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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:pg338:6:58
# text = Try me this once again!” he pleaded in vain.
1	Try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pleaded	plead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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