--- title: One day they go fishing for carp in the Wagai river, miles from home… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: One day they go fishing for carp in the Wagai river, miles from home, and Tegumai breaks his spear on the river bottom. Who acts: wife, Tegumai. 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 Mov --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 3 One day they go fishing for carp in the Wagai river, miles from home, and Tegumai breaks his spear on the river bottom. **Who acts:** wife, Tegumai · **What happens:** go, fish, break · **To what, where:** miles, spear, river bottom 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 (wife, 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:3 # text = One day they go fishing for carp in the Wagai river, miles from home, and Tegumai breaks his spear on the river bottom. # 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 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 fishing fish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 carp carp NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Wagai Wagai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | wife | miles from home | | | day | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **fish** | gerund | wife *not said here* | | | | | for carp in the Wagai river | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for carp=Theme | | 3 | **break** | present | Tegumai | Tegumai's spear | | the river bottom | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Patient | 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:3`. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/1/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/)