--- title: Tegumai says there were no bad people at all, only the poor Stranger… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Tegumai says there were no bad people at all, only the poor Stranger-man they are trying to choke. Who acts: Tegumai, bad people, people. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» of the books course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/1/) [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/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/) / 1 # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 1 Tegumai says there were no bad people at all, only the poor Stranger-man they are trying to choke. **Who acts:** Tegumai, bad people, people · **What happens:** say, be, try, choke · **To what, where:** all, poor Stranger man · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» 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 (Tegumai, bad people, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:1 # text = Tegumai says there were no bad people at all, only the poor Stranger-man they are trying to choke. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.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): R5-strong ×1 1 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ _ 4 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 6 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 choke choke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tegumai | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **be** | past | no bad people | | | all; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location | | 3 | **try** | present · progressive | people | the poor Stranger man *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **choke** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/0/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/)