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title: “Well,” said one, “you have each told your choice, but you have not… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well,” said one, “you have each told your choice, but you have not spoken of the very handsomest and nicest of all the young men. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Beaver Stick, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 11

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“Well,” said one, “you have each told your choice, but you have not spoken of the very handsomest and nicest of all the young men.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say, tell, not speak · **To what, where:** one, choice · **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, The Beaver Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg66596:17:11
# text = “Well,” said one, “you have each told your choice, but you have not spoken of the very handsomest and nicest of all the young men.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obj	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	nicest	nice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect |  |  | your choice |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent choice=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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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