The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 184
When Bluejay and his people were eating the meat that they had killed, that hunter said: “Quick, let us go home.
Who acts: Bluejay, hunter, us · What happens: eat, kill, say, let, go · To what, where: meat, women, us · 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, hunter, us), 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 | _ | 7 eating | mark |
| 2 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 eating | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 people | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 people | nmod:poss |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Bluejay | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 eating | aux |
| 7 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 said | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meat | det |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eating | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 killed | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 eating | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eating | punct |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 hunter | det |
| 16 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Quick | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Quick | punct |
| 20 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 Quick | parataxis |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | Bluejay and Bluejay's people | the meat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | women = woman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | that hunter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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