The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 66
His elder sister said to Bluejay, “Why did you throw away what you had caught?”
Who acts: elder sister, Bluejay · What happens: say, throw away, catch · To what, where: Bluejay · 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 (elder sister, 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 | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | compound |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | 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 | _ | 6 Bluejay | case |
| 6 | Bluejay | Bluejay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 throw | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 throw | punct |
| 9 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 throw | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 throw | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 throw | nsubj |
| 12 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADP | _ | 12 throw | compound:prt |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 caught | aux |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 throw | advcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 caught | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | boy's elder sister | Bluejay | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bluejay=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | throw away in a quote | past · do-support | Bluejay | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | catch in a quote | past · perfect · passive | what nsubj:pass; you nsubj:pass | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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