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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Bluejay Stories, sentence 10

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In somewhat different form, the Bluejay Stories, in the original tongue, may be found in the Chinook Texts, collected by that eminent ethnologist, Dr. Franz Boas, whose studies of American tribes have yielded such important and valuable results.

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**Who acts:** studies · **What happens:** find, collect, yield, study · **To what, where:** Franz, different form, such important results, American tribes

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Bluejay Stories. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (studies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66596:3:10
# text = In somewhat different form, the Bluejay Stories, in the original tongue, may be found in the Chinook Texts, collected by that eminent ethnologist, Dr. Franz Boas, whose studies of American tribes have yielded such important and valuable results.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Stories	Story	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Chinook	Chinook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Texts	Text	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	eminent	eminent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	ethnologist	ethnologist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:desc	_	_
30	Franz	Franz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
31	Boas	Boas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	yielded	yield	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
40	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
41	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	_
44	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | may · passive |  | Franz  Dr. |  | different form  the Bluejay Stories and the original tongue |  | in the Chinook Texts | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 2 | **collect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by that eminent ethnologist | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **yield** | present · perfect | studies of American tribes | such important results |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **study** |  |  | American tribes |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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