Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 3

«I am not a friend, and I am not a servant,» says the Cat.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: friend, servant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» 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 (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	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 friend	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friend	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 friend	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 servant	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 servant	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 servant	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 servant	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 servant	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 servant	det
13	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 friend	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Cat	det
18	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	the Cat = cat	a friend and a servant	tree rules
2	not is a in a quote	present	the Cat = cat	a servant	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	the Cat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.lesson:3.

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): 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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