The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 116

When she had gone Bluejay said: “Come to my house to-morrow to fetch your dish,” and the Beaver answered: “I will come to-morrow.”

Who acts: sister, Bluejay, Beaver · What happens: go, say, come, fetch, answer · To what, where: house, dish, morrow · 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 (sister, Bluejay, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
5	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Come	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Come	punct
9	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 house	nmod:poss
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Come	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 morrow	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 to	punct
15	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Come	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fetch	mark
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Come	advcl
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dish	nmod:poss
19	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fetch	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Come	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 Come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 answered	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Beaver	det
24	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 answered	nsubj
25	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 come	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 morrow	case
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 to	punct
33	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	sister				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Bluejay				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	infinitive			my house	to morrow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location to morrow=Destination
4	fetch in a quote	to-infinitive		your dish			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
5	answer speech: assert	past	the Beaver				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come in a quote	future	Bluejay		morrow		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location

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 116