The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 86

The chief had two very pretty daughters, and at length he said that he would give his daughters to any one who would kill this eagle.

Who acts: chief, man, one · What happens: have, say, give, kill · To what, where: two pretty daughters, length, daughters, one, eagle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, man, one), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 daughters	nummod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 pretty	advmod
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 daughters	amod
7	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 length	case
11	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 give	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughters	nmod:poss
19	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 give	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 one	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 kill	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 kill	aux
25	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 one	acl:relcl
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 eagle	det
27	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kill	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	the chief	two pretty daughters			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	man			length	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	would	man	man's daughters	any one		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to one=Recipient
4	kill	would	any one	this eagle			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme

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.

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The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 86