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title: However, he said nothing till all the Tribe of Tegumai were assemble… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: However, he said nothing till all the Tribe of Tegumai were assembled, and then he led them back to the bank of the Wagai river, and there they found Taffy making daisy-chains, and Tegumai carefully spearing small carp with his mended spear. Who acts: man, people, Taffy, Tegumai. A sentence of «Just
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# Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 117

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However, he said nothing till all the Tribe of Tegumai were assembled, and then he led them back to the bank of the Wagai river, and there they found Taffy making daisy-chains, and Tegumai carefully spearing small carp with his mended spear.

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**Who acts:** man, people, Taffy, Tegumai · **What happens:** say, assemble, lead back, find, make, spear · **To what, where:** nothing, Tribe, people, bank, Taffy, daisy chains · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, people, Taffy, Tegumai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:9:117
# text = However, he said nothing till all the Tribe of Tegumai were assembled, and then he led them back to the bank of the Wagai river, and there they found Taffy making daisy-chains, and Tegumai carefully spearing small carp with his mended spear.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Wagai	Wagai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	_
35	daisy	daisy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	spearing	spear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
43	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	carp	carp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	mended	mend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	amod	_	_
48	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man | nothing |  |  |  | however *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **assemble** | past · passive |  | the Tribe of Tegumai |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **lead back** | past | man | people |  | the bank of the Wagai river | then |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bank=Destination |
| 4 | **find** | past | people | Taffy |  | there |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent taffy=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | Taffy *not said here* | daisy chains |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chain=Product |
| 6 | **spear** | gerund | Tegumai | small carp |  |  |  | with man's mended spear; carefully *property* | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent carp=Patient with spear=Instrument |
| 7 | **mend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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