Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 11

He thinks Tegumai must be a great Chief in danger, with enemies all around, and that the child is asking him to call the whole tribe to help.

Who acts: man, Tegumai, child · What happens: think, be, ask, call, help · To what, where: great Chief, danger, man, whole tribe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Tegumai, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Chief	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 Chief	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 Chief	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Chief	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Chief	amod
8	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 danger	case
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Chief	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 enemies	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 enemies	case
13	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Chief	parataxis
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 around	advmod
15	around	around	ADV	_	13 enemies	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asking	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 asking	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 asking	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 child	det
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 asking	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 asking	aux
22	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thinks	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asking	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 call	mark
25	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 asking	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tribe	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tribe	amod
28	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 help	mark
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 call	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	man				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	must	Tegumai	a great Chief		danger	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	present · progressive	the child		man		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	call not said to happen	to-infinitive	the child not said here	the whole tribe			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tribe=Recipient
5	help	to-infinitive	the child not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.lesson:11.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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