Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us, sentence 21

The Woman: «O Cat, you are as clever as a man, but remember that your bargain was not made with the Man or the Dog.» The Cat: «What is that to me?»

Who acts: you, Cat, your · What happens: be, remember, not make, bargain · To what, where: bargain, Cat, Woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» 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 (you, Cat, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

yes/no question

act

disagree

voice

character

polarity

neg

teacher

changed act=disagree

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.

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