--- title: The Stranger-man is thumped, rolled on pebbles and called rude names… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: The Stranger-man is thumped, rolled on pebbles and called rude names, but he leads them all back to the river. Who acts: 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 s --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 8 The Stranger-man is thumped, rolled on pebbles and called rude names, but he leads them all back to the river. **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** thump, roll, call, lead · **To what, where:** Stranger man, pebbles, rude names, names · **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 (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:8 # text = The Stranger-man is thumped, rolled on pebbles and called rude names, but he leads them all back to the river. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 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 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 thumped thump VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 rolled roll VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 leads lead VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 nmod:unmarked _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thump** | present · passive | | the Stranger man | | | | | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **roll** | participle | | | | pebbles | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pebble=Trajectory | | 3 | **call** | participle | | rude names | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | | 4 | **lead** | present | man | names *= name* | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:8`. **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): 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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