--- title: The laughing goes in order: the Head Chief, then the Stranger-man, t… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: The laughing goes in order: the Head Chief, then the Stranger-man, then Tegumai «till he fell down flat on the bank», then all the Tribe; Teshumai and the ladies did not laugh. Who acts: laughing, Teshumai. 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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 (laughing, Teshumai), 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:17 # text = The laughing goes in order: the Head Chief, then the Stranger-man, then Tegumai «till he fell down flat on the bank», then all the Tribe; Teshumai and the ladies did not laugh. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 laughing laughing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Head Head PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 18 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 20 till till SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 23 down down ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 flat flat ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Teshumai Teshumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 39 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 42 . . 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 | **go** | present | the laughing | | | order | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location | | 2 | **fall down** *in a quote* | past | laughing | | | the bank | | flat *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bank=Location | | 3 | **not** **laugh** | past · do-support | Teshumai and the ladies | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:17`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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