The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 51
They took them up to the house and made a fire and roasted them, and when the fish were cooked they gave them to Bluejay and his sister, and they ate part of them and were satisfied.
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: take up, make, roast, cook, give, eat · To what, where: neighbors, house, fire, Bluejay, fish, part
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 roasted | cc |
| 13 | roasted | roast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 roasted | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 cooked | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 cooked | aux:pass |
| 21 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 gave | advcl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Bluejay | case |
| 26 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sister | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sister | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Bluejay | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ate | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 ate | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 ate | nsubj |
| 33 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 34 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ate | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 part | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 satisfied | cc |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 satisfied | cop |
| 39 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 ate | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Bluejay | neighbors = neighbor | the house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | past | Bluejay not said here | a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | ||||
| 3 | roast | past | Bluejay not said here | Bluejay | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cook | past · passive | the fish | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | give | past | Bluejay | fish | Bluejay and shore's sister | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bluejay=Recipient | |||
| 6 | eat | past | Bluejay | part of fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Bluejay not said here | satisfied property | 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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