--- title: His «mendy-bag» holds reindeer-sinews (tough strings from an animal'… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: His «mendy-bag» holds reindeer-sinews (tough strings from an animal's body), strips of leather, bee's-wax and resin (sticky tree-gum). Who acts: mendy bag. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark» of the books co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/) / 18 # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 18 His «mendy-bag» holds reindeer-sinews (tough strings from an animal's body), strips of leather, bee's-wax and resin (sticky tree-gum). **Who acts:** mendy bag · **What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** reindeer sinews This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mendy bag), 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:18 # text = His «mendy-bag» holds reindeer-sinews (tough strings from an animal's body), strips of leather, bee's-wax and resin (sticky tree-gum). # 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 ×5 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 3 mendy mendy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 10 sinews sinew NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 12 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 14 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 leather leather NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 bee's bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 27 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 resin resin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 31 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 32 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:appos 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | fish's mendy bag | reindeer sinews and strips of leather | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sinew=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.lesson:18`. **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 ×5. **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…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/17/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/)