Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 22

Because Tegumai never turns round, the Stranger-man thinks he must be a haughty, great Chief, «Man-who-turns-his-back-on-callers».

Who acts: Tegumai, Stranger man, man, haughty great Chief · What happens: not turn round, think, be, turn · To what, where: haughty great Chief · 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 (Tegumai, Stranger man, man, haughty great Chief), 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 turns	mark
2	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 turns	advmod
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thinks	advcl
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 turns	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turns	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
8	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Stranger	punct
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thinks	nsubj
11	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 Chief	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 Chief	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 Chief	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Chief	det
16	haughty	haughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Chief	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 haughty	punct
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Chief	amod
19	Chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thinks	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turns	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 Man	punct
22	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turns	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Man	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 turns	nsubj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 who	punct
26	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 Chief	conj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 callers	punct
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 callers	nmod:poss
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 back	punct
30	back	back	ADV	_	34 callers	advmod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 back	punct
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 callers	case
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 on	punct
34	callers	caller	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thinks	obl
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	34 callers	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not turn round	present	Tegumai		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	present	the Stranger man		on man's callers	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on caller=Topic
3	is a	must	man	a haughty great Chief and Man turns		tree rules
4	turn in a quote		a haughty great Chief and Man turns			tree rules

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:22.

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): R6-punct-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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