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title: Soon Bluejay got up and swept his house, and found one dry salmon eg… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon Bluejay got up and swept his house, and found one dry salmon egg, which he put in his topknot. Who acts: Bluejay, one dry salmon egg. 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 pragmatic
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 31

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Soon Bluejay got up and swept his house, and found one dry salmon egg, which he put in his topknot.

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**Who acts:** Bluejay, one dry salmon egg · **What happens:** get up, sweep, find, put · **To what, where:** house, one dry salmon egg, topknot

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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, one dry salmon egg), 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:pg66596:5:31
# text = Soon Bluejay got up and swept his house, and found one dry salmon egg, which he put in his topknot.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:outer	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	topknot	topknot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | Bluejay |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sweep** | past | Bluejay *not said here* | shore's house |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory |
| 3 | **find** | past | Bluejay *not said here* | one dry salmon egg |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic |
| 4 | **put** | past | one dry salmon egg |  |  | shore's topknot |  | shore *nsubj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in topknot=Destination |

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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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