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title: “Yes,” added his wife, “and no doubt the poor young man is hungry; h… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes,” added his wife, “and no doubt the poor young man is hungry; he seems to be lean and pinched.” Who acts: wife, doubt, man. 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 pragmatics of every clau
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 64

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“Yes,” added his wife, “and no doubt the poor young man is hungry; he seems to be lean and pinched.”

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**Who acts:** wife, doubt, man · **What happens:** add, be, seem, pinch · **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 (wife, doubt, 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:pg66596:17:64
# text = “Yes,” added his wife, “and no doubt the poor young man is hungry; he seems to be lean and pinched.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	pinched	pinch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | son's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | no doubt |  |  |  |  | the poor young man *nsubj*; hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lean *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pinch** *in a quote* | participle | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: 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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