The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 194
Some one said to him, “Be quiet, Bluejay; if you had not been bad, our Chief would not have done this to us.”
Who acts: one, Bluejay, Chief · What happens: say, be, not be, not do · To what, where: Bluejay, this, 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 (one, Bluejay, Chief), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 quiet | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quiet | punct |
| 8 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 quiet | cop |
| 9 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bluejay | punct |
| 11 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 quiet | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 bad | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 bad | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 bad | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bad | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 bad | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 bad | cop |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Chief | punct |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Chief | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 done | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 done | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 done | aux |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 bad | parataxis |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 done | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 us | case |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 done | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | some one | Bluejay | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | Bluejay obl; quiet property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | Bluejay | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not do in a quote | would · perfect | our Chief | this | us | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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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