Grice De-Parsed

By courtesy of M. Quinion and his e-mail service:

"The Associated Press's muddled sentence demon strikes again. From a
widely reproduced AP news story, that was seen by Pete Saussy in
The State, South Carolina"

i. Authorities say they have charged two
South Carolina women with murder
after finding them inside a trailer
with the body of a man
trying to clean up after he was shot
in the head.

--- Implicature:

i. U is being cooperative.
ii. A murdered man cannot clean afer hisself.
iii. The two wicked ladies did it.
iv. penalty decreased because they were 'cleaning
after theirselves'?
v. No: penalty INcreased: they were trying
to get away with _it_.
vi. Etc.