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title: Just at evening they came to the village, and Bluejay called out, “A… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Just at evening they came to the village, and Bluejay called out, “Ah, Stikuá, come and get your mussels.” Who acts: spirits, Stikuá. 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 pragmatics of every 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 188

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Just at evening they came to the village, and Bluejay called out, “Ah, Stikuá, come and get your mussels.”

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**Who acts:** spirits, Stikuá · **What happens:** come, call out, get · **To what, where:** village, Bluejay, mussels · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (spirits, Stikuá), 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:pg66596:4:188
# text = Just at evening they came to the village, and Bluejay called out, “Ah, Stikuá, come and get your mussels.”
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	Stikuá	Stikuá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mussels	mussel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | spirits *= spirit* |  |  | the village | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | Bluejay |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | Stikuá |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | Stikuá *not said here* | your mussels |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mussel=Stimulus |

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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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