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title: Pretty soon Bluejay said to his sister’s children: “Go to the beach… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pretty soon Bluejay said to his sister’s children: “Go to the beach and lie down there.” Who acts: Bluejay. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay, the Imitator, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 146

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Pretty soon Bluejay said to his sister’s children: “Go to the beach and lie down there.”

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**Who acts:** Bluejay · **What happens:** say, go, lie down · **To what, where:** children, beach · **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, Bluejay, the Imitator. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bluejay), 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:pg66596:5:146
# text = Pretty soon Bluejay said to his sister’s children: “Go to the beach and lie down there.”
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	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 |  | bundle's sister's children |  |  | soon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | the beach |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lie down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | there |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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