The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 162
Blue jay said to his sister: “Where are these people?”
Who acts: Blue jay · What happens: say, be · To what, where: sister, people · 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 (Blue jay), 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 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 jay | amod |
| 2 | jay | jay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sister | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 9 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 people | advmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 people | cop |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | parataxis |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Blue jay | jay's sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this people | tree rules |
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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