--- title: After a long silence the Head Chief laughs, then the Stranger-man, t… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: After a long silence the Head Chief laughs, then the Stranger-man, then Tegumai, then everyone, except the ladies, who keep saying «Idiot!» to their husbands. Who acts: Head Chief, ladies. 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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 (Head Chief, ladies), 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:5 # text = After a long silence the Head Chief laughs, then the Stranger-man, then Tegumai, then everyone, except the ladies, who keep saying «Idiot!» to their husbands. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 17 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 17 appos _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 except except ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 xcomp _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Idiot idiot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 husbands husband NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | present | the Head Chief and the Stranger man and Tegumai | | | | after a long silence | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | present | the ladies | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the ladies *not said here* | Idiot | Chief's husbands | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent idiot=Topic to husband=Recipient | 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:5`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/4/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/)