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

The Man was wild too, until the Woman made a home: a dry Cave, clean sand on the floor, a fire at the back and a horse-skin curtain over the door.

Who acts: Man, Woman · What happens: be, make · To what, where: home

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 (Man, Woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Man	det
2	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wild	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wild	cop
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 wild	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 made	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Woman	det
9	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wild	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 home	det
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Cave	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Cave	det
15	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Cave	amod
16	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sand	punct
18	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sand	amod
19	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Cave	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 floor	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 floor	det
22	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sand	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fire	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Cave	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 back	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 back	det
28	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fire	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 curtain	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 curtain	det
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 skin	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 horse	punct
33	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 curtain	compound
34	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 back	conj
35	over	over	ADP	_	37 door	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 door	det
37	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 curtain	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wild	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Man					wild property	tree rules
2	make	past	the Woman	a home				a dry Cave and clean sand on the floor and a fire at the back and a skin curtain over the door obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Product

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:1.

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, R7-rel-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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