--- title: Taffy offers to run home for the other spear, but Tegumai says it is… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Taffy offers to run home for the other spear, but Tegumai says it is too far, and she might fall into the beaver-swamp on the way. Who acts: Taffy, Tegumai, spear, Teshumai. 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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 (Taffy, Tegumai, spear, Teshumai), 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:16 # text = Taffy offers to run home for the other spear, but Tegumai says it is too far, and she might fall into the beaver-swamp on the way. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 offers offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 swamp swamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 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 | **offer** | present | Taffy | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Taffy *not said here* | home | | | | for the other spear | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent home=Product for spear=Beneficiary | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tegumai | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | spear | | | | | far *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fall** | might | Teshumai | | | the beaver swamp | | on the way | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | 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:16`. **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): R5-strong ×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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/15/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/)