Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 176

Then they adopted the Stranger-man (a genuine Tewara of Tewar) into the Tribe of Tegumai, because he was a gentleman and did not make a fuss about the mud that the Neolithic ladies had put into his hair.

Who acts: letters, man · What happens: adopt, be, not make, put · To what, where: Stranger man, Tribe, gentleman, fuss, Neolithic ladies, hair

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 (letters, man), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 adopted	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 adopted	nsubj
3	adopted	adopt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Stranger	punct
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adopted	obj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 Tewara	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Tewara	det
10	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Tewara	amod
11	Tewara	Tewara	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 man	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Tewar	case
13	Tewar	Tewar	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Tewara	nmod
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 Tewara	punct
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 Tribe	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Tribe	det
17	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 adopted	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Tegumai	case
19	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Tribe	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gentleman	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 gentleman	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gentleman	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gentleman	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 gentleman	det
25	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adopted	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 make	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 make	advmod
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 adopted	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fuss	det
31	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
32	about	about	ADP	_	34 mud	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mud	det
34	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fuss	nmod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 put	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ladies	det
37	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ladies	amod
38	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 put	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 put	aux
40	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 make	advcl
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 hair	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hair	nmod:poss
43	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 put	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 adopted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adopt	past	letters = letter	the Stranger man	the Tribe of Tegumai	then		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	is a	past	man	a gentleman				tree rules
3	not make	past · do-support	letters = letter not said here	a fuss			about the mud	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product
4	put	past · perfect · passive		the Neolithic ladies	man's hair			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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.

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