The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 113

As they were about to start, his sister said to him: “You go down first to the beach, or else you will talk a great deal.”

Who acts: Bluejay, sister, Beaver · What happens: be, start, say, go down, talk · To what, where: Beaver, great deal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay, the Imitator. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bluejay, sister, Beaver), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 about	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 about	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 start	mark
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sister	nmod:poss
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
15	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 go	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 beach	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beach	det
21	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 talk	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 talk	cc
24	else	else	ADV	_	27 talk	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 talk	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 talk	aux
27	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 deal	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 deal	amod
30	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 talk	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 about	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Bluejay			about property	tree rules
2	start	to-infinitive	Bluejay not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	Beaver's sister		Beaver		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	go down in a quote	present	Beaver			to the beach; down, first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	talk in a quote	future	Beaver	a great deal		else property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent deal=Patient

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, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 113