The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 74
When they were nearly at their home Bluejay called out, “Stikuá, your mussels.”
What happens: call out · To what, where: lions
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: 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 called | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 9 called | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obl |
| 8 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 called | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stikuá | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stikuá | punct |
| 13 | Stikuá | Stikuá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mussels | punct |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mussels | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mussels | mussel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Stikuá | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 mussels | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stikuá | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | past · passive | lions = lion | at lions's home; Bluejay nsubj:pass; Stikuá xcomp; nearly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: subject=Theme at home=Stimulus |
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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