The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 142
When they were close to the houses Bluejay called out, “Ah, Stikuá, get your mussels.”
Who acts: people · What happens: be, call out, get · To what, where: Bluejay, mussels · 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 (people), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 close | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 close | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 close | cop |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 houses | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 houses | det |
| 7 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 close | obl |
| 8 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 houses | appos |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Bluejay | acl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 called | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Stikuá | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Stikuá | punct |
| 13 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 15 Stikuá | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ah | punct |
| 15 | Stikuá | Stikuá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bluejay | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 close | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mussels | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mussels | mussel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 get | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 close | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | people | to the houses; close property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | Bluejay and Stikuá not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | infinitive | people not said here | your mussels | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mussel=Stimulus |
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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