Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 29

Tegumai drew a hank of deer-sinews from his mendy-bag and began to mend his spear.

Who acts: Tegumai · What happens: draw, begin, mend · To what, where: hank, mendy bag, spear

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 (Tegumai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:457): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hank	det
4	hank	hank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 sinews	case
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sinews	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 deer	punct
8	sinews	sinew	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hank	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 bag	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bag	nmod:poss
11	mendy	mendy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bag	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 mendy	punct
13	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 mend	mark
17	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 spear	nmod:poss
19	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mend	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	draw	past	Tegumai	a hank of deer sinews	Tegumai's mendy bag	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hank=Theme from bag=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	Tegumai not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	mend	to-infinitive	Tegumai not said here	Tegumai's spear		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.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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