Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 22

Tegumai says: «Why, the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here, Taffy», a joke, because they are loud and armed.

Who acts: Tegumai, whole dear nice clean quiet Tribe · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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, whole dear nice clean quiet Tribe), 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	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 here	punct
5	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 here	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Why	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Tribe	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Tribe	amod
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Tribe	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dear	punct
11	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nice	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kind	punct
13	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Tribe	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nice	punct
15	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Tribe	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clean	punct
17	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Tribe	amod
18	Tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 here	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 here	cop
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 says	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Taffy	punct
22	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Tribe	appos
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 Taffy	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 joke	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 joke	det
26	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Taffy	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 loud	punct
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 loud	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 loud	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 loud	cop
31	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	advcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 armed	cc
33	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 loud	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Tegumai		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	the whole dear nice clean quiet Tribe	here property	tree rules
3	is	present	Tegumai	loud property	tree rules
4	be		Tegumai not said here		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:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.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): no change. 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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