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title: After a while birds came flying after them towards the sea—birds wit… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a while birds came flying after them towards the sea—birds with red bills, just as if blood were on their beaks. Who acts: while birds, blood. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 178

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After a while birds came flying after them towards the sea—birds with red bills, just as if blood were on their beaks.

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**Who acts:** while birds, blood · **What happens:** come, fly, be · **To what, where:** birds, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (while birds, blood), 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:pg66596:4:178
# text = After a while birds came flying after them towards the sea—birds with red bills, just as if blood were on their beaks.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a while birds | birds with red bills and women's beaks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | a while birds *not said here* |  |  | the sea | after women *= woman* |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sea=Destination |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | blood |  |  |  |  | as women's beaks; women *= woman* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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