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title: Have pity on me, young brave, and shoot yonder bird for me!” — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Have pity on me, young brave, and shoot yonder bird for me!” A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 91

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

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**What happens:** have · **To what, where:** pity

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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.

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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:pg338:8:91
# text = Have pity on me, young brave, and shoot yonder bird for me!”
1	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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