The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 46
After they had sat a little while, the Duck said to her five children, “Go and wash yourselves.”
Who acts: Bluejay, Duck · What happens: sit, say, go, wash · To what, where: five children · 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, Duck), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 sat | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | aux |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 while | amod |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Duck | det |
| 10 | Duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 children | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 children | nmod:poss |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 children | nummod |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Go | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Go | punct |
| 18 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wash | cc |
| 20 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 Go | conj |
| 21 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 wash | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Go | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · perfect | Bluejay | while | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Duck | whale's five children | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | wash in a quote | infinitive | whale's five children = child | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Patient |
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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