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title: Now all the young men in the camp were jealous of the Nothing Child,… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now all the young men in the camp were jealous of the Nothing Child, for it was certain that he would get the chief’s daughters for his wives. Who acts: young men, camp, man. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child, with its depen
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 102

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Now all the young men in the camp were jealous of the Nothing Child, for it was certain that he would get the chief’s daughters for his wives.

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**Who acts:** young men, camp, man · **What happens:** be, get · **To what, where:** daughters

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men, camp, man), 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:pg66596:15:102
# text = Now all the young men in the camp were jealous of the Nothing Child, for it was certain that he would get the chief’s daughters for his wives.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all young men in the camp |  |  |  | now | of the Nothing Child; jealous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | camp |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | would | man | the chief's daughters |  |  |  | for man's wives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme for wife=Beneficiary |

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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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