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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 172

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He took up a coat made of goat wool, and somebody cried out, “Why do you lift my coat, Bluejay?”

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**Who acts:** person, somebody, you · **What happens:** take up, make, cry out, lift · **To what, where:** coat · **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 (person, somebody, you), 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:pg66596:5:172
# text = He took up a coat made of goat wool, and somebody cried out, “Why do you lift my coat, Bluejay?”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | past | person | a coat |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a coat *not said here* |  |  |  | of goat wool | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | somebody |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lift** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | my coat |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=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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