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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 194

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Some one said to him, “Be quiet, Bluejay; if you had not been bad, our Chief would not have done this to us.”

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**Who acts:** one, Bluejay, Chief · **What happens:** say, be, not be, not do · **To what, where:** Bluejay, this, us · **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 (one, Bluejay, Chief), 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:pg66596:4:194
# text = Some one said to him, “Be quiet, Bluejay; if you had not been bad, our Chief would not have done this to us.”
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
18	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	parataxis	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | some one |  | Bluejay |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | Bluejay *obl*; quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | Bluejay |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | would · perfect | our Chief | this | us |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |

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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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