Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 20

The bargain: «help my Man to hunt through the day and guard this Cave at night, and I will give you as many roast bones as you need.» The Woman names him «the First Friend».

Who acts: Man, you, Woman · What happens: help, hunt, guard, give, need, name · To what, where: Man, Cave, many roast bones, you

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, you, 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 bargain	det
2	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bargain	appos
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Man	nmod:poss
7	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hunt	mark
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	xcomp
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hunt	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 guard	cc
14	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hunt	conj
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 Cave	det
16	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 guard	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 guard	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 give	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 many	advmod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bones	amod
27	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bones	compound
28	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 give	obj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 need	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 need	nsubj
31	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 give	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	36 names	punct
34	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Woman	det
35	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 names	nsubj
36	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bargain	parataxis
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 names	obj
38	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 Friend	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Friend	det
40	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	41 Friend	amod
41	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 names	xcomp
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	41 Friend	punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bargain	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	help in a quote	infinitive		my Man			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	hunt in a quote	to-infinitive	my Man not said here			day	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	guard in a quote	infinitive	my Man not said here	this Cave		night	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Beneficiary
4	give in a quote	future	Man	many roast bones	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bone=Theme
5	need in a quote	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	name	present	the Woman	Man			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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:20.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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