--- title: The ladies fill the poor man's hair with mud, bang the tribal drums… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: The ladies fill the poor man's hair with mud, bang the tribal drums and call every chief of the Tribe. Who acts: ladies. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/7/) [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/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/) / 7 # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 7 The ladies fill the poor man's hair with mud, bang the tribal drums and call every chief of the Tribe. **Who acts:** ladies · **What happens:** fill, bang, call · **To what, where:** hair, tribal drums, chief · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (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:7 # text = The ladies fill the poor man's hair with mud, bang the tribal drums and call every chief of the Tribe. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fill fill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 bang bang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 tribal tribal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Tribe tribe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | present | the ladies | the poor man's hair | | | | with mud | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hair=Patient with mud=Instrument | | 2 | **bang** | present | the ladies *not said here* | the tribal drums | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | | 3 | **call** | present | the ladies *not said here* | every chief of the Tribe | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient | 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:7`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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. 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