The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 50
Bluejay again spoke to him in low tones, and said, “Where is your fishing-fence?”
Who acts: Bluejay · What happens: speak, say, be · To what, where: boy, low tones, fishing fence · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tones | case |
| 7 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tones | amod |
| 8 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spoke | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fence | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fence | punct |
| 14 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 fence | advmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fence | cop |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fence | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fence | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fishing | punct |
| 19 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 fence | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Bluejay | boy | low tones | again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Bluejay not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | your fishing fence | your nmod:poss | 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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