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title: Then Teshumai Tewindrow ran down and kissed and hugged Taffy very mu… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Teshumai Tewindrow ran down and kissed and hugged Taffy very much indeed; but the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai took Tegumai by the top-knot feathers and shook him severely. Who acts: Teshumai, Head Chief. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written
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# Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 129

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Then Teshumai Tewindrow ran down and kissed and hugged Taffy very much indeed; but the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai took Tegumai by the top-knot feathers and shook him severely.

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**Who acts:** Teshumai, Head Chief · **What happens:** run down, kiss, hug, take, shake · **To what, where:** Taffy, Tegumai

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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 (Teshumai, Head Chief), 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:pg2781:9:129
# text = Then Teshumai Tewindrow ran down and kissed and hugged Taffy very much indeed; but the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai took Tegumai by the top-knot feathers and shook him severely.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hugged	hug	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Head	Head	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run down** | past | Teshumai |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | Teshumai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hug** | past | Teshumai *not said here* | Taffy |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taffy=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai |  | Tegumai |  |  | by the knot feathers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument tegumai=Destination |
| 5 | **shake** | past | the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai *not said here* | Tegumai |  |  |  | severely *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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