--- title: Then the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai cried and said and sang,… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai cried and said and sang, ‘O Small-person-with-out-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked, you’ve hit upon a great invention!’ Who acts: Head Chief, you. 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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 (Head Chief, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2781:9:166 # text = Then the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai cried and said and sang, ‘O Small-person-with-out-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked, you’ve hit upon a great invention!’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Head Head PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Tribe Tribe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 O of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 20 case _ _ 18 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 out out NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 spanked spank VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ve have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 conj _ _ 43 upon upon ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 invention invention NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ! ! PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai | | | | then | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai *not said here* | Small person any manners | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location person=Theme | | 4 | **spank** | ought · passive | the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai *not said here* | any manners | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **hit** | present · perfect | you | | | | | upon a great invention | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/165/) - next →: [sentence 167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/167/) - ↑ back to [How the First Letter Was Written](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/)