The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 171

He threw down the sinews that he had split on the stones where the people used to gather their mussels, and said to the mussels, “After this when Bluejay and these others go to take up you mussels, you shall always be tied fast to the rocks.”

Who acts: hunter, people, Bluejay · What happens: throw down, split, use, gather, say, go · To what, where: sinews, stones, 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 (hunter, people, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sinews	det
5	sinews	sinew	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 split	nsubj:pass
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 split	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 split	aux
9	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sinews	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 stones	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stones	det
12	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 split	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 used	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stones	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 gather	mark
18	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mussels	nmod:poss
20	mussels	mussel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gather	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 mussels	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mussels	det
26	mussels	mussel	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
29	After	after	ADP	_	30 this	case
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 go	obl
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 go	advmod
32	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 go	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 others	cc
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 others	det
35	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 Bluejay	conj
36	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 said	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 take	mark
38	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 go	xcomp
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 take	compound:prt
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 take	obj
41	mussels	mussel	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 take	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 tied	punct
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 tied	nsubj:pass
44	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 tied	aux
45	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	47 tied	advmod
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 tied	aux:pass
47	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 threw	conj
48	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 tied	advmod
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 rocks	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 rocks	det
51	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 tied	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past	hunter	the sinews					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sinew=Theme
2	split	past · perfect · passive		the sinews		the stones		hunter nsubj	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	use	past	the people						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	gather	to-infinitive	the people not said here	sinews's mussels					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussel=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past			the mussels				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mussel=Recipient
6	go in a quote	present	Bluejay and this others				after this		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	take up in a quote	to-infinitive	Bluejay and this others not said here	the mussels = mussel				mussels obj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme mussel=Destination
8	tie in a quote	shall · passive		the mussels = mussel				to the rocks; always, fast property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to rock=Co-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 171