The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 23
Bluejay said to the Magpie, “To-morrow come and visit us and get your kettle and bring it back with you.”
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: say, come, visit, get, bring back · To what, where: Magpie, morrow, us, kettle · 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 (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 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Magpie | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Magpie | det |
| 5 | Magpie | Magpie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 8 | To | to | ADP | _ | 10 morrow | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 To | punct |
| 10 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 visit | cc |
| 13 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | conj |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 visit | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 kettle | nmod:poss |
| 18 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bring | cc |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 get | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 bring | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Bluejay | the Magpie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to magpie=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | visit in a quote | present | us | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | your kettle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kettle=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | bring back in a quote | infinitive | kettle | with the Magpie = magpie | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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