The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 80
Bluejay was wondering what food would be given them, and he said to his sister: “What will he give us to eat?”
Who acts: Bluejay, Bear · What happens: wonder, give, say, eat · To what, where: food, sister, us · 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, Bear), 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 | 3 wondering | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wondering | aux |
| 3 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 given | advcl |
| 4 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 food | det |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 given | aux:pass |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 given | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 sister | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sister | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 19 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 give | obj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 given | parataxis |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 eat | mark |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 give | advcl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | Bluejay | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | give | would · passive | what food | Bluejay obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Bear | Bear's sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | Bear | us | What obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient what=Theme | |||
| 5 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | Bear not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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