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title: First of all walked Teshumai Tewindrow and the Neolithic ladies, tig… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: First of all walked Teshumai Tewindrow and the Neolithic ladies, tightly holding on to the Stranger-man, whose hair was full of mud (although he was a Tewara). Who acts: hair, man. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 125

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First of all walked Teshumai Tewindrow and the Neolithic ladies, tightly holding on to the Stranger-man, whose hair was full of mud (although he was a Tewara).

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**Who acts:** hair, man · **What happens:** walk, hold on, be · **To what, where:** Teshumai, Tewara

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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 (hair, man), 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:pg2781:9:125
# text = First of all walked Teshumai Tewindrow and the Neolithic ladies, tightly holding on to the Stranger-man, whose hair was full of mud (although he was a Tewara).
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Tewara	Tewara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past |  | Teshumai and the Neolithic ladies |  |  |  | first *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teshumai=Agent |
| 2 | **hold on** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the Stranger man; tightly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | hair |  |  |  |  | of mud; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | man | a Tewara |  |  |  |  | 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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