The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 175
Bluejay said to the men, “What is this that is coming?”
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: say, be · To what, where: men · 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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 coming | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 coming | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 coming | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 coming | cop |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 coming | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 coming | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 coming | aux |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 coming | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Bluejay | the men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present · progressive | What nsubj; this nsubj; that nsubj; come property | tree rules |
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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