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title: Now, as they floated down the stream, Bluejay sat silent, and was wo… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, as they floated down the stream, Bluejay sat silent, and was wondering what all this meant, and pretty soon when he looked back at the stern of the canoe the boy was sitting there again. Who acts: bones, Bluejay, this, boy. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 44

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Now, as they floated down the stream, Bluejay sat silent, and was wondering what all this meant, and pretty soon when he looked back at the stern of the canoe the boy was sitting there again.

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**Who acts:** bones, Bluejay, this, boy · **What happens:** float, sit, wonder, mean, look back · **To what, where:** stream, canoe

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, Bluejay, this, boy), 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:pg66596:6:44
# text = Now, as they floated down the stream, Bluejay sat silent, and was wondering what all this meant, and pretty soon when he looked back at the stern of the canoe the boy was sitting there again.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
20	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
40	again	again	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | past | bones *= bone* |  |  | the stream | now |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stream=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sit** | past | Bluejay |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | Bluejay *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | past | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look back** | past | Bluejay |  |  |  |  | at the stern of the canoe; soon *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stern=Theme |
| 6 | **sit** | past · progressive | the boy | the canoe *not said here* |  | there | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location canoe=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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