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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 80

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Bluejay was wondering what food would be given them, and he said to his sister: “What will he give us to eat?”

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**Who acts:** Bluejay, Bear · **What happens:** wonder, give, say, eat · **To what, where:** food, sister, us · **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, Bear), 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:pg66596:5:80
# text = Bluejay was wondering what food would be given them, and he said to his sister: “What will he give us to eat?”
1	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | Bluejay |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give** | would · passive |  | what food |  |  |  | Bluejay *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Bear |  | Bear's sister |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | future | Bear |  | us |  |  | What *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient what=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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