The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 42

Bluejay said, “We will eat it all here, or else our Chief’s son will always be wanting to come with us.”

Who acts: Bluejay, We, son · What happens: say, eat, want, come · To what, where: land · 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, We, son), 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 it	det
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 eat	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wanting	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 wanting	cc
13	else	else	ADV	_	21 wanting	advmod
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
15	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 son	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Chief	case
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wanting	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 wanting	aux
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 wanting	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanting	aux
21	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanting	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 us	case
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 come	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Bluejay				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat in a quote	future	We	land	here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	want in a quote	future · progressive	our son			always, else property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	come not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	our son not said here			with us	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 42