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title: The chief had two very pretty daughters, and at length he said that… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The chief had two very pretty daughters, and at length he said that he would give his daughters to any one who would kill this eagle. Who acts: chief, man, one. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child, with its dependency tree and
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 86

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The chief had two very pretty daughters, and at length he said that he would give his daughters to any one who would kill this eagle.

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**Who acts:** chief, man, one · **What happens:** have, say, give, kill · **To what, where:** two pretty daughters, length, daughters, one, eagle · **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, 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 (chief, man, one), 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:pg66596:15:86
# text = The chief had two very pretty daughters, and at length he said that he would give his daughters to any one who would kill this eagle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
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	3	parataxis	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the chief | two pretty daughters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  | length |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** | would | man | man's daughters | any one |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to one=Recipient |
| 4 | **kill** | would | any one | this eagle |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=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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