--- title: Tegumai's spear is wood with shark's teeth at the end; he breaks it… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Tegumai's spear is wood with shark's teeth at the end; he breaks it «clean across» by jabbing too hard on the river bottom, and he has forgotten to bring extra spears. Who acts: spear, Tegumai. 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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 (spear, Tegumai), 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:15 # text = Tegumai's spear is wood with shark's teeth at the end; he breaks it «clean across» by jabbing too hard on the river bottom, and he has forgotten to bring extra spears. # 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): no change 1 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 19 across across ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 21 by by SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 jabbing jab VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 23 too too ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 spears spear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Tegumai's spear | wood | | | | with shark's teeth at the end | tree rules | | 2 | **break** | present | Tegumai | spear | | | | clean *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | | 3 | **jab** | gerund | Tegumai *not said here* | | | | | on the river bottom; hard *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on bottom=Patient | | 4 | **forget** | present · perfect | Tegumai | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **bring** | to-infinitive | Tegumai *not said here* | extra spears | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spear=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. **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. 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