The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 51

Bluejay said to the men who had been with him, “Do not tell the Chief’s son, any of you, for if you do he will always go with us.”

Who acts: Bluejay, men · What happens: say, be, not tell, do, go · To what, where: men, any, son · 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, men), 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 him	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 him	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 him	cop
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 men	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
13	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 tell	advmod
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Chief	det
17	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 son	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Chief	case
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 any	punct
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 tell	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 any	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 go	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 go	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 do	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 go	advcl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 go	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 go	aux
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 go	advmod
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tell	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 us	case
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 go	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	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	past · perfect	the men			with man	tree rules
3	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive · do-support		any of you	the Chief's son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
4	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the men = man				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go in a quote	future	Bluejay			with us; always property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with we=Beneficiary

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 51