The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 135

Bluejay took a piece of meat and threw it out, and said to the bird, “I give you this to eat; take it.”

Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: take, throw out, say, give, eat · To what, where: piece, bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bluejay), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 piece	det
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 meat	case
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 piece	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 threw	cc
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 threw	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	8 threw	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 bird	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	nsubj
20	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 you	nmod:unmarked
23	to	to	PART	_	24 eat	mark
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 give	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
26	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	take	past	Bluejay	a piece of meat		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent piece=Theme clause=Attribute
2	throw out	past	Bluejay not said here	piece		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Bluejay not said here		the bird	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give in a quote	present	Bluejay		the bird = bird	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	Bluejay not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take in a quote	infinitive		piece		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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: «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (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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Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 135