The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 36
The boy went, as he had been told, but he felt very sorry, and then Bluejay said, “Quick, let us leave him.”
Who acts: boy, Bluejay, us · What happens: go, tell, feel, say, let, leave · To what, where: boy, 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 (boy, Bluejay, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 told | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 told | aux:pass |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 felt | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 sorry | advmod |
| 15 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 said | advmod |
| 19 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Quick | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Quick | punct |
| 23 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 Quick | parataxis |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 let | obj |
| 27 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 let | xcomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 leave | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the boy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | boy | sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Bluejay | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | leave in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | boy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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