The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 121
Bluejay went out of the house, and after he had been gone a little while he came back with a bunch of willow twigs, and he put them before the Beaver, who began to eat them, and soon ate them all up.
Who acts: Bluejay, Beaver · What happens: go out, go, come back, put, begin, eat · To what, where: house, Beaver, Bluejay
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, 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 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gone | cc |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 gone | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 gone | aux:pass |
| 13 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 little | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | advcl |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 bunch | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bunch | det |
| 22 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 twigs | case |
| 24 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 twigs | compound |
| 25 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bunch | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 put | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 put | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 put | nsubj |
| 29 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 put | obj |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 Beaver | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Beaver | det |
| 33 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 put | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 began | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 began | nsubj |
| 36 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 Beaver | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 eat | mark |
| 38 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 began | xcomp |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 eat | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 ate | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 ate | cc |
| 42 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 ate | advmod |
| 43 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 ate | obj |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 46 | up | up | ADV | _ | 43 ate | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Bluejay | the house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect · passive | Beaver | a little obl:unmarked | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | Beaver | with a bunch of willow twigs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | past | Beaver | Bluejay | before the Beaver | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before beaver=Destination | |||
| 5 | begin | past | the Beaver | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | the Beaver not said here | Bluejay | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 7 | eat up | past | Bluejay not said here | Bluejay | soon property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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