The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 124
Not many days after this they were again hungry, and Bluejay said: “Let us go visiting again.
Who acts: many days, Bluejay, us · What happens: be, say, let, go, visit · To what, where: us · 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 (many days, Bluejay, us), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hungry | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 days | nmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hungry | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hungry | cop |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 hungry | advmod |
| 9 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hungry | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Let | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Let | punct |
| 16 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Let | obj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Let | xcomp |
| 19 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 go | xcomp |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 visiting | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | many days after this | again | Bluejay nsubj; hungry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bluejay | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | visit in a quote | gerund | us not said here | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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