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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 42

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Bluejay said, “We will eat it all here, or else our Chief’s son will always be wanting to come with us.”

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**Who acts:** Bluejay, We, son · **What happens:** say, eat, want, come · **To what, where:** land · **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 (Bluejay, We, son), 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:pg66596:4:42
# text = Bluejay said, “We will eat it all here, or else our Chief’s son will always be wanting to come with us.”
1	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	else	else	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	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 | Bluejay |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | future | We | land |  | here |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **want** *in a quote* | future · progressive | our son |  |  |  |  | always, else *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **come** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | our son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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