--- title: Tegumai says: «I had to pay two deerskins, soft ones with fringes, t… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Tegumai says: «I had to pay two deerskins, soft ones with fringes, to the Stranger-man for the things we did to him.» Taffy: «We didn't do anything», it was Mummy and the other Neolithic ladies, and the mud. Who acts: Tegumai, we, secret. 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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 (Tegumai, we, secret), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:10 # text = Tegumai says: «I had to pay two deerskins, soft ones with fringes, to the Stranger-man for the things we did to him.» Taffy: «We didn't do anything», it was Mummy and the other Neolithic ladies, and the mud. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.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, R8-pos-agree ×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 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 deerskins deerskin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 fringes fringe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 Stranger Stranger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 31 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 32 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 34 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 38 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 37 obj _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 parataxis _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 47 Neolithic neolithic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:appos 53 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Tegumai | | | | | to the Stranger man for the things | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Tegumai *not said here* | two deerskins and soft ones with fringes | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deerskin=Asset | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | we | the things *not said here* | Tegumai | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | past · do-support | We | anything | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | past | secret | Mummy and the other Neolithic ladies and the mud | | | | | 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:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:10`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/8/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/)