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title: “Well,” replied the other, “I pity the poor young man, and, if my fa… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well,” replied the other, “I pity the poor young man, and, if my father would allow me, I would marry him and make a man of him. Who acts: I, father. 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 pr
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 20

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“Well,” replied the other, “I pity the poor young man, and, if my father would allow me, I would marry him and make a man of him.

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**Who acts:** I, father · **What happens:** reply, pity, allow, marry, make · **To what, where:** other, poor young man, me, man · **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 (I, father), 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:pg66596:17:20
# text = “Well,” replied the other, “I pity the poor young man, and, if my father would allow me, I would marry him and make a man of him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pity	pity	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the other |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pity** *in a quote* | present | I | the poor young man |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 3 | **allow** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | my father |  | me |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **marry** *in a quote* | would | I | man |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* | a man of man |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product |

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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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