The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 158
After a time these two were again hungry, and Blue jay said: “Let us go and visit the Shadows.”
Who acts: two, Blue jay, us · What happens: be, say, let, go, visit · To what, where: us, Shadows · 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 (two, Blue jay, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hungry | obl |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 two | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hungry | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hungry | cop |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 hungry | advmod |
| 8 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 11 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 jay | amod |
| 12 | jay | jay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 visit | cc |
| 20 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Let | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Shadows | det |
| 22 | Shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 visit | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Let | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this two | again; time | hungry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Blue jay | 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 disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | visit in a quote | infinitive | the Shadows | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Co-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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