The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 7

He started for the country of the ghosts, and on his way he began to ask every one whom he saw, “Where does a person go when he dies?”

Who acts: Bluejay, person · What happens: start, begin, ask, see, go, die · To what, where: way, one · 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, person), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 country	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 started	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 ghosts	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ghosts	det
8	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 country	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 ask	mark
17	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ask	obj
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 saw	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 one	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
25	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 go	advmod
26	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 go	aux
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 person	det
28	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	nsubj
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 saw	ccomp
30	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 dies	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dies	nsubj
32	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 go	advcl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 started	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past	Bluejay			for the country of the ghosts	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	begin	past	Bluejay		Bluejay's way		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Bluejay not said here	every one			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
4	see	past	Bluejay	every one			tree rules
5	go in a quote	present · do-support	a person				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	die in a quote	present	Bluejay				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 7