--- title: He thinks Tegumai must be a great Chief in danger, with enemies all… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: He thinks Tegumai must be a great Chief in danger, with enemies all around, and that the child is asking him to call the whole tribe to help. Who acts: man, Tegumai, child. 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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 (man, Tegumai, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.lesson:11 # text = He thinks Tegumai must be a great Chief in danger, with enemies all around, and that the child is asking him to call the whole tribe to help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ _ 14 all all ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 around around ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | man | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | must | Tegumai | a great Chief | | danger | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · progressive | the child | | man | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **call** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* | the whole tribe | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tribe=Recipient | | 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.lesson:11`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/10/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/)