Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 0

Long ago all the tame animals were wild: Dog, Horse, Cow, Sheep and Pig walked in the Wet Wild Woods, and the wildest of all was the Cat, who walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

Who acts: tame animals, Pig, wildest, Cat, places · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: Wet Woods, Pig

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» 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 (tame animals, Pig, wildest, Cat), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ago	advmod
2	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 wild	advmod
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 animals	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animals	det
5	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wild	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wild	cop
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 wild	punct
10	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wild	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Horse	punct
12	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Dog	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Cow	punct
14	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Dog	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Sheep	punct
16	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Dog	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 walked	cc
18	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walked	nsubj
19	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Sheep	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 Woods	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Woods	det
22	Wet	Wet	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Woods	compound
23	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Wet	flat
24	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 walked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Cat	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Cat	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wildest	det
28	wildest	wild	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 Cat	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 Cat	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 Cat	det
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 Cat	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Cat	det
33	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walked	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 walked	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 walked	nsubj
36	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 Cat	acl:relcl
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 himself	case
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 walked	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 alike	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 alike	cc
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 places	det
42	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 alike	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 alike	cop
44	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wild	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 alike	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wild	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	all tame animals			Dog and Horse and Cow and Sheep obl; ago, wild property	tree rules
2	walk	past	Pig		the Wet Woods		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in woods=Trajectory
3	is	past	the wildest			of all Cat	tree rules
4	walk	past	all Cat			by Pig	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory
5	is	past	all places	Pig		alike property	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:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:0.

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, R7-rel-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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