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title: By chance the Stranger-man finds Teshumai at her Cave, having lunch… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics
description: By chance the Stranger-man finds Teshumai at her Cave, having lunch with other Stone Age ladies. Who acts: Stranger man. 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
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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 3

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By chance the Stranger-man finds Teshumai at her Cave, having lunch with other Stone Age ladies.

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**Who acts:** Stranger man · **What happens:** find, have · **To what, where:** Teshumai, Cave, lunch

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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 (Stranger man), 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:3
# text = By chance the Stranger-man finds Teshumai at her Cave, having lunch with other Stone Age ladies.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Stranger	Stranger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Cave	cave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
14	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	Stone	Stone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	Age	age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **find** | present | the Stranger man | Teshumai |  | Teshumai's Cave |  | by chance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent teshumai=Theme at cave=Asset |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | the Stranger man *not said here* | lunch |  |  |  | with other Age ladies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient |

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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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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