The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 15

They dragged it up on the shore near by, and Bluejay said, “We will boil it here.”

Who acts: Mussels, Bluejay, We · What happens: drag up, say, boil · To what, where: distance, shore · 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 (Mussels, Bluejay, We), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dragged	nsubj
2	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dragged	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 dragged	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 shore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obl
8	near	near	ADV	_	2 dragged	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	8 near	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dragged	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boil	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 boil	punct
16	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 boil	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 boil	aux
18	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 boil	obj
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 boil	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 boil	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 boil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag up	past	Mussels = mussel	distance	the shore	near property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Bluejay				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	boil in a quote	future	We	distance	here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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: «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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 15

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Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 15