--- title: The closing poem is sad and tender: none of the Tribe remain, but ea… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: The closing poem is sad and tender: none of the Tribe remain, but each spring Taffy seems to come dancing through the fern on Merrow Down, and far behind comes Tegumai, looking for «the daughter that was all to him». Who acts: closing poem, none, Taffy, Tegumai. 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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 (closing poem, none, Taffy, Tegumai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:9 # text = The closing poem is sad and tender: none of the Tribe remain, but each spring Taffy seems to come dancing through the fern on Merrow Down, and far behind comes Tegumai, looking for «the daughter that was all to him». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 closing closing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 tender tender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 13 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 remain remain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 dancing dance VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 through through ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fern fern NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 Merrow Merrow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Down Down PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod 32 behind behind ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 34 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 37 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ _ 46 » » PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ 47 . . 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** | present | the closing poem | | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the closing poem *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **remain** | present | none | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **seem** | present | Taffy | | | | spring | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | Taffy *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **dance** | gerund | Taffy *not said here* | | | the fern | | on Merrow Down | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fern=Location | | 7 | **come** | present | Tegumai | | | | | behind *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **look** | gerund | Tegumai *not said here* | | | | | for the daughter | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for daughter=Theme | 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:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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