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 25

I will hunt you till I catch you, and when I catch you I will bite you.» The Cat first counts the Dog's teeth (they look very pointed), then agrees.

Who acts: I, Cat, teeth · What happens: hunt, catch, bite, count, look, agree · To what, where: you, teeth

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 (I, Cat, teeth), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hunt	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	aux
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hunt	obj
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 catch	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 catch	nsubj
7	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 catch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bite	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bite	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 catch	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 catch	nsubj
13	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 bite	advcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 catch	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bite	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bite	aux
17	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hunt	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 bite	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hunt	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 hunt	punct
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Cat	det
22	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 counts	nsubj
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 counts	advmod
24	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Dog	det
26	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 teeth	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Dog	case
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 counts	obj
29	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 look	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 look	nsubj
31	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 counts	parataxis
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 pointed	advmod
33	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 look	xcomp
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 look	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 agrees	punct
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 agrees	advmod
37	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 counts	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	future	I	you			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	catch	present	I	you			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	catch	present	I	you			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	bite	future	I	you			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	count in a quote	present	the Cat	the Dog's teeth		first property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
6	look in a quote	present	teeth = tooth			pointed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	agree speech: agree in a quote	present	the Cat not said here		then		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: 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:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:25.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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