--- title: Taffy wishes they could write, so they could send a message home for… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Taffy wishes they could write, so they could send a message home for Daddy's other spear, the big black-handled one. Who acts: Taffy, wife. 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 p --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 5 Taffy wishes they could write, so they could send a message home for Daddy's other spear, the big black-handled one. **Who acts:** Taffy, wife · **What happens:** wish, write, send, handle · **To what, where:** message · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Taffy, wife), 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:5 # text = Taffy wishes they could write, so they could send a message home for Daddy's other spear, the big black-handled one. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wishes wish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 12 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound 13 home home ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 21 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 22 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 handled handle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wish** | present | Taffy | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **write** | could | wife | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **send** | could | wife | a message | | | | for Daddy's other spear; home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | | 4 | **handle** | participle | | | | | | | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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