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title: Tegumai says: «Why, the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe i… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tegumai says: «Why, the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here, Taffy», a joke, because they are loud and armed. Who acts: Tegumai, whole dear nice clean quiet Tribe. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole
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# Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 22

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Tegumai says: «Why, the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here, Taffy», a joke, because they are loud and armed.

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**Who acts:** Tegumai, whole dear nice clean quiet Tribe · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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 (Tegumai, whole dear nice clean quiet Tribe), 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:22
# text = Tegumai says: «Why, the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here, Taffy», a joke, because they are loud and armed.
# 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): no change
1	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
5	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
9	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	ccomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tegumai |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the whole dear nice clean quiet Tribe |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Tegumai |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Tegumai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:22`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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