The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 6
One day Bluejay said to his sister: “Let us go visiting; let us visit the Magpie.”
Who acts: Bluejay, us · What happens: say, let, go, visit · To what, where: sister, us, Magpie · 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, us), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sister | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 10 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Let | obj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Let | xcomp |
| 13 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 go | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Let | conj |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Magpie | det |
| 19 | Magpie | Magpie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 visit | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Bluejay | shore's sister | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | visit in a quote | gerund | us not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | visit in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the Magpie | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magpie=Co-Agent |
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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