The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 20
When they were about to start, his sister said to Bluejay, “You go down first to the beach.”
Who acts: friends, sister, Bluejay · What happens: be, start, say, go down · To what, where: Bluejay · 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 (friends, sister, Bluejay), 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 about | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 about | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 start | mark |
| 6 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 about | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Bluejay | case |
| 12 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 go | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 beach | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beach | det |
| 21 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | friends = friend | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | shore's sister | Bluejay | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bluejay=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go down in a quote | present | Bluejay | to the beach; down, first property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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