--- title: Then they adopted the Stranger-man (a genuine Tewara of Tewar) into… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then they adopted the Stranger-man (a genuine Tewara of Tewar) into the Tribe of Tegumai, because he was a gentleman and did not make a fuss about the mud that the Neolithic ladies had put into his hair. Who acts: letters, man. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/176/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [How the First Letter Was Written](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/) / 176 # Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 176 Then they adopted the Stranger-man (a genuine Tewara of Tewar) into the Tribe of Tegumai, because he was a gentleman and did not make a fuss about the mud that the Neolithic ladies had put into his hair. **Who acts:** letters, man · **What happens:** adopt, be, not make, put · **To what, where:** Stranger man, Tribe, gentleman, fuss, Neolithic ladies, hair 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 (letters, man), 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:pg2781:9:176 # text = Then they adopted the Stranger-man (a genuine Tewara of Tewar) into the Tribe of Tegumai, because he was a gentleman and did not make a fuss about the mud that the Neolithic ladies had put into his hair. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 adopted adopt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 genuine genuine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Tewara Tewara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Tewar Tewar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Tribe Tribe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 gentleman gentleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fuss fuss NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 about about ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 Neolithic neolithic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 41 into into ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **adopt** | past | letters *= letter* | the Stranger man | | the Tribe of Tegumai | then | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | man | a gentleman | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **make** | past · do-support | letters *= letter* *not said here* | a fuss | | | | about the mud | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product | | 4 | **put** | past · perfect · passive | | the Neolithic ladies | | man's hair | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | 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 175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/175/) - next →: [sentence 177](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/177/) - ↑ back to [How the First Letter Was Written](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/)