--- title: Then she singed her daughter, and when she had finished singeing her… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: Then she singed her daughter, and when she had finished singeing her she cut her up and threw her down before Bluejay and his sister, saying: “You may eat this.” Who acts: seal, You. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seal, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:5:156 # text = Then she singed her daughter, and when she had finished singeing her she cut her up and threw her down before Bluejay and his sister, saying: “You may eat this.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 singed singe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 12 singeing singe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 22 before before ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Bluejay Bluejay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 “ " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 34 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ” " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **singe** | past | seal | seal's daughter | | | then | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | | 2 | **finish** | past · perfect | seal | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **singe** | gerund | | seal | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 4 | **cut up** | past | seal | Ioí | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product | | 5 | **throw down** | past | seal *not said here* | seal | | | before Bluejay and Beaver's sister | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme before bluejay=Destination | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | seal *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **eat** *in a quote* | may | You | this | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/155/) - next →: [sentence 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/157/) - ↑ back to [Bluejay, the Imitator](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/)