--- title: And his wife’s name was Teshumai Tewindrow, and that means, ‘Lady-wh… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: And his wife’s name was Teshumai Tewindrow, and that means, ‘Lady-who-asks-a-very-many-questions’; but we, O Best Beloved, will call her Teshumai, for short. Who acts: name, that, Lady, we. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/5/) [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/) / 5 # Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 5 And his wife’s name was Teshumai Tewindrow, and that means, ‘Lady-who-asks-a-very-many-questions’; but we, O Best Beloved, will call her Teshumai, for short. **Who acts:** name, that, Lady, we, wife · **What happens:** be, mean, ask, call, name · **To what, where:** Teshumai, Lady, many questions · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (name, that, Lady, we), 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:pg2781:9:5 # text = And his wife’s name was Teshumai Tewindrow, and that means, ‘Lady-who-asks-a-very-many-questions’; but we, O Best Beloved, will call her Teshumai, for short. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 Teshumai Teshumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 8 Tewindrow Tewindrow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 nsubj _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 31 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 O o INTJ UH _ 35 vocative _ _ 34 Best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 35 Beloved Beloved PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 Teshumai Teshumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | man's wife's name | Teshumai | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | that | Lady | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Lady | a many questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | future | we | | Beloved's Teshumai | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teshumai=Recipient | | 5 | **name** | | man's wife | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/6/) - ↑ back to [How the First Letter Was Written](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/9/)