--- title: The Stranger-man thinks the Chief «pretended not to notice me» becau… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: The Stranger-man thinks the Chief «pretended not to notice me» because enemies were hiding in the bushes; he «raced off into the bushes like the wind». Who acts: Stranger man, Chief, enemies. 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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 (Stranger man, Chief, enemies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:15 # text = The Stranger-man thinks the Chief «pretended not to notice me» because enemies were hiding in the bushes; he «raced off into the bushes like the wind». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advcl 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 raced race VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 off off ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the Stranger man | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **pretend** *in a quote* | past | the Chief | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **notice** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Chief *not said here* | the Stranger man *= man* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 4 | **hide** | past · progressive | enemies | | | the bushes | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location | | 5 | **race off** *in a quote* | past | Chief | | | the bushes | | like the wind; off *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bush=Destination | 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:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:15`. **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. **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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