--- title: Bluejay, the Imitator — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · full text with trees description: Bluejay, the Imitator, «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Bluejay and his elder sister Ioí, with her five children, lived together in a house by the sea beach. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Punishment of the Stingy, and Othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/) / Bluejay, the Imitator # Bluejay, the Imitator Bluejay, the Imitator of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell: the whole text, 182 sentences and 2811 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/page/2/) Bluejay and his elder sister Ioí, with her five children, lived together in a house by the sea beach.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Every morning they went out to walk along the beach, to see what the tide had washed up during the night that was good to eat.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") Sometimes they found fish, or a seal, and sometimes a whale.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Some days when they found nothing, they dug clams on the flat, but some days they could get no clams, and so they were hungry.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Up and down the shore lived their neighbors.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") One day Bluejay said to his sister: “Let us go visiting; let us visit the Magpie.”[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") She said, “Let it be so.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") We will go.”[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Early next morning they put their canoe in the water and paddled away, and when they came near the Magpie’s house they saw him sitting on the roof.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") They landed, and went up to the house, and the Magpie came down from the roof, and all went inside and sat down.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay and his sister sat there and looked all around, but they saw no food.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") After a little while the Magpie swept his house, and while he was sweeping it out he found one dry salmon egg.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") He put this in the feathers of his head.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he made a fire and heated some stones.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") He filled a basket-work kettle with water, put the salmon egg in the water, then put the stones in the water, one after another, and covered the kettle.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon the water was boiling, and when it had boiled a little while he took off the cover, and the kettle was full of boiled salmon eggs.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") The Magpie put the kettle before Bluejay and his sister, and said, “Eat, my friends; you must be hungry.”[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") They ate until they were satisfied, and still the kettle was half full.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") After a time they started to return to their house, taking with them the kettle with the food that was left.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") When they were about to start, his sister said to Bluejay, “You go down first to the beach.”[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") He said to her, “No, you go down first.”[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") So his sister went down first to the beach to get the canoe ready.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay said to the Magpie, “To-morrow come and visit us and get your kettle and bring it back with you.”[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The Magpie said, “It is good; I will go to visit you.”[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Bluejay and his sister went home.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") The next morning, early, Bluejay went up on the roof of his house and sat there.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") After a time he called out to his sister, and said: “A canoe is coming.”[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") She answered: “It is coming, because you told him to come.”[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") Pretty soon, as they looked, they could see that it was the Magpie in the canoe, and at length he landed and pulled his canoe up on the beach and walked up to the house.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay came down from the roof, and they went in and sat down.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon Bluejay got up and swept his house, and found one dry salmon egg, which he put in his topknot.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") When he had finished sweeping his house, he built a fire and heated some stones and filled a basket-work kettle with water and put in it the salmon egg, and then the hot stones, and covered the kettle.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") He did everything just as the Magpie had done it.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon the water boiled, and he took the cover off, but there was nothing in the kettle but hot water.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") The Magpie said, “Bluejay can do only one thing.”[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") He took the kettle and threw the stones out of it.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he heated more stones, put a dry salmon egg in the water, put in the hot stones, and covered the kettle, and soon the water began to boil.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") Presently he took the cover off the kettle, and it was full of boiled salmon eggs.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the Magpie went down to the beach and put his canoe in the water and paddled away to his home.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") After several nights Bluejay and his sister were hungry.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay said: “Let us go visiting.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") Let us go and visit the Duck.”[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") “We will go to-morrow,” said his sister.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") The next morning early they started and paddled away towards the Duck’s house.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") After a while they came within sight of the house, and then landed on the beach and went up to the house.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") After they had sat a little while, the Duck said to her five children, “Go and wash yourselves.”[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") They went down to the beach and went into the water and washed themselves.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they dived, and when each came to the top of the water it had a trout in its mouth.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") They put these on a mat on the beach.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") Ten times they dived, and by that time their mat was full of trout.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") They took them up to the house and made a fire and roasted them, and when the fish were cooked they gave them to Bluejay and his sister, and they ate part of them and were satisfied.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Pretty soon the visitors got ready to go, taking with them the food that was left.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") Ioí said to her brother: “You go down first to the beach, or else you will talk ever so much.”[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay answered her: “No, you go down first.”[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") So his sister went down first to get the canoe ready, and when she had gone, Bluejay said to the Duck: “Come to my house to-morrow and get your mat.”[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") The Duck said: “To-morrow I will go to visit you.”[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Bluejay and his sister paddled away, and soon came to their house.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") Early next morning Bluejay got up and went up to the roof of the house.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") After he had been sitting there for some time, he called out to his sister: “A canoe is coming.”[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") She said to him: “It comes because you asked them to come.”[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") Pretty soon the Duck, with her five children, reached the beach, and after they had pulled the canoe out of the water, they went up to the house.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") After they had sat a while, Bluejay said to his sister’s children: “Go and wash yourselves.”[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") The children went down to the beach and into the water and washed themselves.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") They tried to dive, but no matter how hard they might try their backs remained above the water.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") Ten times they tried to dive, and their feathers were all wet and clinging to them, and they were almost dead with cold.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") They came up to the house shivering, and not bringing anything with them.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") The Duck said: “Bluejay can do only one thing.”[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she said to her children: “Go and wash yourselves.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") We will give them something to eat.”[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") The Duck’s children went down to the beach and washed themselves.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") They dived ten times, and then their mat was full of trout.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") They brought them up to the house and threw them on the ground.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the Ducks went home.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") Some little time after this Bluejay and his sister were again hungry.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay said: “Let us go and visit Black Bear.”[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") Early the next morning they set out, and before noon they reached the Black Bear’s house and went in and sat down.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") They looked around.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") No food was to be seen.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") Pretty soon the Bear built a fire and began to heat stones.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay was wondering what food would be given them, and he said to his sister: “What will he give us to eat?”[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") When the stones were hot the Bear took his knife and cut the soles from his feet, and cut a big piece of meat out of his thigh.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he rubbed his hands over the wounds, and at once they were healed.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he cut the flesh that he had taken from his feet and from his thigh into small pieces and put it in the kettle, and put the hot stones in the kettle and boiled it.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") When it was cooked he placed the kettle before them, and said to them: “Eat, my friends; you must be hungry.”[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") They ate, and pretty soon they were satisfied.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") When they were ready to go home Ioí said to her brother: “You go down first, or else you will be talking a great deal.”[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") Bluejay said: “No, you go down first.”[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") His sister went, and when she had gone Bluejay said to the Bear: “Come to-morrow and visit us.”[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") The Bear said he would do so; then Bluejay and his sister went home to their house.[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/page/2/) - ← previous: [A Bluejay Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/4/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/page/2/) - ↑ back to [The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/)