--- title: Then she tells the whole Tribe they are «just the stupidest people i… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Then she tells the whole Tribe they are «just the stupidest people in the world» and orders them to wash the nice Stranger-man. Who acts: spear, people. 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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 (spear, 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:4 # text = Then she tells the whole Tribe they are «just the stupidest people in the world» and orders them to wash the nice Stranger-man. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 10 just just ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 stupidest stupid ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 ccomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 orders order VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | spear | the whole Tribe | | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tribe=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | people | the stupidest people | | the world | | | tree rules | | 3 | **order** | present | spear *not said here* | | people | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **wash** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | spear *not said here* | the nice Stranger man | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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:4`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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