--- title: Because Tegumai never turns round, the Stranger-man thinks he must b… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Because Tegumai never turns round, the Stranger-man thinks he must be a haughty, great Chief, «Man-who-turns-his-back-on-callers». Who acts: Tegumai, Stranger man, man, haughty great Chief. 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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 (Tegumai, Stranger man, man, haughty great Chief), 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:22 # text = Because Tegumai never turns round, the Stranger-man thinks he must be a haughty, great Chief, «Man-who-turns-his-back-on-callers». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 round round ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 13 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 haughty haughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 22 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 callers caller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **turn round** | present | Tegumai | | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the Stranger man | | | | | on man's callers | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on caller=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | must | man | a haughty great Chief and Man turns | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **turn** *in a quote* | | a haughty great Chief and Man turns | | | | | | tree rules | 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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