--- title: There they find Taffy making daisy-chains and Tegumai happily speari… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: There they find Taffy making daisy-chains and Tegumai happily spearing small carp with his mended spear. Who acts: ladies, Taffy, Tegumai. 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 Mov --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 9 There they find Taffy making daisy-chains and Tegumai happily spearing small carp with his mended spear. **Who acts:** ladies, Taffy, Tegumai · **What happens:** find, make, spear, mend · **To what, where:** Taffy, daisy chains, small carp 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, Taffy, Tegumai), 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:9 # text = There they find Taffy making daisy-chains and Tegumai happily spearing small carp with his mended spear. # 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 1 There there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:expl|HaikuPos=PRON:EX:PronType=Dem 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 6 daisy daisy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 chains chain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 10 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 happily happily ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 spearing spear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 carp carp NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 mended mend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | ladies *= lady* | Taffy | | there | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent taffy=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **make** | gerund | Taffy *not said here* | daisy chains | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chain=Product | | 3 | **spear** | gerund | Tegumai | small carp | | | | with man's mended spear; happily *property* | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent carp=Patient with spear=Instrument | | 4 | **mend** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:9`. **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. **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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