--- title: She takes one look, screams, and the ladies knock him down and sit o… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: She takes one look, screams, and the ladies knock him down and sit on him in a long line of six, while Teshumai pulls his hair. Who acts: Teshumai, ladies. 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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 (Teshumai, ladies), 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:5 # text = She takes one look, screams, and the ladies knock him down and sit on him in a long line of six, while Teshumai pulls his hair. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 screams scream VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 knock knock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 down down ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 Teshumai Teshumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **take** | present | Teshumai | one look | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme | | 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | Teshumai *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **knock down** | present | the ladies | man | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 4 | **sit** | present | the ladies *not said here* | | | a long line of six | | on man | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location | | 5 | **pull** | present | Teshumai | man's hair | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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