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title: She was young and handsome and of good family, and her parents were… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: She was young and handsome and of good family, and her parents were well-to-do, for her father was a leading warrior of his tribe. Who acts: Su, parents, father. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote, with its dependency 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 2

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She was young and handsome and of good family, and her parents were well-to-do, for her father was a leading warrior of his tribe.

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**Who acts:** Su, parents, father · **What happens:** be, lead

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Su, parents, 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:pg66596:18:2
# text = She was young and handsome and of good family, and her parents were well-to-do, for her father was a leading warrior of his tribe.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	do	do	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	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	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Su |  |  |  |  | good family *conj*; young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Su *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Su's parents |  |  |  |  | to do; well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 5 | **is** | past | Su's father |  |  |  |  | for a leading warrior; of Wolf's tribe | tree rules |

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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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