--- title: The Magpie said, “It is good; I will go to visit you.” — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: The Magpie said, “It is good; I will go to visit you.” Who acts: Magpie, kettle. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/24/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/) / 24 # The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 24 The Magpie said, “It is good; I will go to visit you.” **Who acts:** Magpie, kettle · **What happens:** say, be, go, visit · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Magpie, kettle), 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:pg66596:5:24 # text = The Magpie said, “It is good; I will go to visit you.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Magpie Magpie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Magpie | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | kettle | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | future | the Magpie *= magpie* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **visit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Magpie *= magpie* *not said here* | you | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/25/) - ↑ back to [Bluejay, the Imitator](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/)