--- title: Bluejay often went along the beach trying to find food, but he was a… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: Bluejay often went along the beach trying to find food, but he was always unlucky, for he found nothing, and often, while he was looking, suddenly it would begin to hail—big hailstones. Who acts: Bluejay, food. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bluejay, food), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:4:198 # text = Bluejay often went along the beach trying to find food, but he was always unlucky, for he found nothing, and often, while he was looking, suddenly it would begin to hail—big hailstones. 1 Bluejay Bluejay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 along along ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 16 advmod _ _ 16 unlucky unlucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 hail hail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 — - PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 hailstones hailstone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Bluejay | | | | | along the beach; often *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **try** | gerund | Bluejay *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Bluejay *not said here* | food | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | | 4 | **is** | past | Bluejay | | | | | always, unlucky *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | past | Bluejay | nothing | | | | often *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 6 | **look** | past · progressive | Bluejay | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **begin** | would | food | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **hail** | to-infinitive | food *not said here* | big hailstones | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hailstone=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 197](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/4/197/) - next →: [sentence 199](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/4/199/) - ↑ back to [A Bluejay Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/4/)