The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 88
His sister went, and when she had gone Bluejay said to the Bear: “Come to-morrow and visit us.”
Who acts: sister, gone Bluejay · What happens: go, say, come, visit · To what, where: Bear, morrow, 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 (sister, gone 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gone | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 gone | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 Bluejay | amod |
| 10 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Bear | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bear | det |
| 14 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Come | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Come | punct |
| 17 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 morrow | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 to | punct |
| 20 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Come | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 visit | cc |
| 22 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Come | conj |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 visit | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Bear's sister | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | sister | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | gone Bluejay | the Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bear=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | visit in a quote | infinitive | us | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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