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title: When you find sea-lions you shall always kill them, but do not give… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: When you find sea-lions you shall always kill them, but do not give any of them to stingy people. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 166

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When you find sea-lions you shall always kill them, but do not give any of them to stingy people.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** find, kill, not give · **To what, where:** sea lions, lions, any, stingy people

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story. 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:pg66596:4:166
# text = When you find sea-lions you shall always kill them, but do not give any of them to stingy people.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	stingy	stingy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | you | sea lions |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Topic |
| 2 | **kill** | shall | you | lions *= lion* |  |  |  | always *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **give** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | any of lions | stingy people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent any=Theme to people=Recipient |

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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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