Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 6

She offers him as many bones as he needs if he helps the Man hunt by day and guards the Cave at night.

Who acts: Woman, Cat · What happens: offer, need, help, guard · To what, where: many bones, Cat, Man hunt, Cave

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 (Woman, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offers	nsubj
2	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offers	iobj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 bones	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bones	amod
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 offers	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 needs	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 needs	nsubj
9	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bones	advcl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 helps	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 helps	nsubj
12	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 needs	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hunt	det
14	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hunt	compound
15	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 helps	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 day	case
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 helps	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 guards	cc
19	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 helps	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Cave	det
21	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 guards	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 guards	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 offers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	offer	present	Woman	many bones	Cat		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal bone=Theme
2	need	present	Cat				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	help a condition, not said to happen	present	Cat	the Man hunt		day	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Beneficiary
4	guard	present	Cat not said here	the Cave		night	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Beneficiary

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:6.

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 ×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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