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title: He started for the country of the ghosts, and on his way he began to… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: He started for the country of the ghosts, and on his way he began to ask every one whom he saw, “Where does a person go when he dies?” Who acts: Bluejay, person. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, with its depend
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 7

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He started for the country of the ghosts, and on his way he began to ask every one whom he saw, “Where does a person go when he dies?”

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**Who acts:** Bluejay, person · **What happens:** start, begin, ask, see, go, die · **To what, where:** way, one · **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 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 (Bluejay, person), 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:pg66596:6:7
# text = He started for the country of the ghosts, and on his way he began to ask every one whom he saw, “Where does a person go when he dies?”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
26	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
30	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | Bluejay |  |  |  |  | for the country of the ghosts | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Bluejay |  |  | Bluejay's way |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Bluejay *not said here* | every one |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
| 4 | **see** | past | Bluejay | every one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a person |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **die** *in a quote* | present | Bluejay |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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