Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 5

After a long silence the Head Chief laughs, then the Stranger-man, then Tegumai, then everyone, except the ladies, who keep saying «Idiot!» to their husbands.

Who acts: Head Chief, ladies · What happens: laugh, keep, say · To what, where: Idiot, husbands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» 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 (Head Chief, ladies), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 silence	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 silence	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 silence	amod
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laughs	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Chief	det
6	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Chief	compound
7	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 laughs	nsubj
8	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 man	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
12	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Stranger	punct
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Chief	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Tegumai	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 Tegumai	advmod
17	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 man	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 everyone	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 everyone	advmod
20	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 Tegumai	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ladies	punct
22	except	except	ADP	_	24 ladies	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ladies	det
24	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 everyone	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saying	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 keep	nsubj
27	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ladies	acl:relcl
28	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 keep	xcomp
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 Idiot	punct
30	Idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saying	obj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 Idiot	punct
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 Idiot	punct
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 husbands	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 husbands	nmod:poss
35	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 saying	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 husbands	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	laugh	present	the Head Chief and the Stranger man and Tegumai			after a long silence	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present	the ladies				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the ladies not said here	Idiot	Chief's husbands		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent idiot=Topic to husband=Recipient

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:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:5.

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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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