What's so confusing about english?

Not so fast kind folks. I posit the sentence is nonsense. Why? Read the original sentence. “Daughter” is capitalized. You only capitalize “daughter” (at least in American English) if either it is being used as a name: “When you are older you will understand Daughter.” Or when it is used as a title: “Daughter Jill, kindly fetch my slippers?” AND where the possessive is not used: ie: “My daughter Jill.”

Now- “because” is also capitalized. If the article “her” was not used- “Daughter” could be the capitalized title and “Because” the name- however “her” makes “Daughter” have no reason to be capitalized as a title. So it would have to be a name. “Because” is capitalized as well which means it COULD be a last name and the full name is “Daughter Because” however- “her” doesn’t apply to proper names in this way.

We could say “she loved her Steven dearly...” and the possessive denotes affection. It makes sense in that we could say: “She hit her Jasmine Rodgers, she was drunk.” However it’s VERY uncommon when using the informal affectionate to use a surname and given name. Not only that but the sentence structure overall falls apart.

It all falls apart and if “Daughter Because” was a name- we don’t have any idea what sex or gender they might be based on that name as it is not traditionally associated with men or women- although we might infer “daughter” to be feminine it could just as easily be a foreign name where it’s a coincidence it is spelled like the English word for a female child.

@guest_ what about Who then??

Good eye and good question. That falls into the “this sentence is nonsense” category. We could pick at syntax and say this or that aspect of the sentence is worded slightly awkwardly but has a different meaning- but they don’t line up together nor with the punctuation. “Who” could be a proper noun- but then it is declarative as in “Now you tell me John was drunk that night...” but there’s a question mark- which we could say is akin to “and you say Sarah is violent?” But context doesn’t add up.

So what I see is less “clever stump of an expert” and more akin to walking up to a doctor saying: “I hear you’re the best doctor on earth? Well tell me what THIS is..” and dumping a box of various body parts and cuts of meat. At the core however there is a clever play on words. But beyond that I see red pen marks.