--- title: «Shi» is Tegumai for spear; he draws it as a plain straight line, «W… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: «Shi» is Tegumai for spear; he draws it as a plain straight line, «We won't have beavers or hills this time». Who acts: Shi, Tegumai, We. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water» of the books course of Mova's primary s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/19/) [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 Alphabet Was…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/) / 19 # Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 19 «Shi» is Tegumai for spear; he draws it as a plain straight line, «We won't have beavers or hills this time». **Who acts:** Shi, Tegumai, We · **What happens:** be, draw, not have · **To what, where:** Tegumai, spear, beavers · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water» 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 (Shi, Tegumai, We), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.lesson:19 # text = «Shi» is Tegumai for spear; he draws it as a plain straight line, «We won't have beavers or hills this time». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.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 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Shi Shi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 draws draw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 19 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 23 beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Shi | Tegumai | | | | for spear | tree rules | | 2 | **draw** | present | Tegumai | spear | | | | as a plain straight line | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | future | We | beavers or hills | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=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:088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.lesson:19`. **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. **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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/18/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/)