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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 55

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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.”

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**Who acts:** sister, Bluejay · **What happens:** go down, get, go, say, come · **To what, where:** canoe, Duck, house, mat · **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 (sister, 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:pg66596:5:55
# text = 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.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | shore's sister |  |  |  |  | down, first *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | shore's sister *not said here* | the canoe |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer canoe=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past · perfect | sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Bluejay |  | the Duck |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to duck=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | my house |  | to morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location to morrow=Destination |
| 6 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your mat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mat=Stimulus |

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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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