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title: When you kill a good whale you shall eat it, but do not give any of… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: When you kill a good whale you shall eat it, but do not give any of it 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 167

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When you kill a good whale you shall eat it, but do not give any of it to stingy people.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** kill, eat, not give · **To what, where:** good whale, plank, 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:pg66596:4:167
# text = When you kill a good whale you shall eat it, but do not give any of it 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	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	stingy	stingy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present | you | a good whale |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | shall | you | plank |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **give** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | any of plank | 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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