The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 17

After a little Bluejay went out and walked through the village, and began to open the doors of the houses and to look into them; and when he looked into them he did not find people in any of the houses, but only bones.

Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: go out, walk, begin, open, look, not find · To what, where: village, doors, people, any

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts. 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 Bluejay	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Bluejay	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bluejay	amod
4	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walked	cc
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 open	mark
16	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 doors	det
18	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 open	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 houses	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 houses	det
21	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 doors	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 look	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 open	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 look	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 looked	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 looked	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 looked	nsubj
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 looked	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 find	nsubj
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 find	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 find	advmod
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 looked	ccomp
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 find	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 any	case
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 people	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 houses	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 houses	det
43	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 any	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 bones	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 bones	cc
46	only	only	ADV	_	47 bones	advmod
47	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 houses	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past				after a little Bluejay	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	past			the village			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through village=Trajectory
3	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	open	to-infinitive		the doors of the houses				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	look	to-infinitive					into doors = door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into they=Theme
6	look	past	Bluejay				into doors = door	tree rules
7	not find	past · do-support	Bluejay	people	any of the houses but bones			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic

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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 17