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 33

Talk in this lesson: «it's giving» = it seems like; «bostin'» (Black Country) = brilliant; «eh» (Canada) = right? isn't it?

Who acts: you, life, it · What happens: talk, give, seem, be · To what, where: lesson, life

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, life, it), 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	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 lesson	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talk	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Talk	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 giving	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 giving	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 giving	aux
9	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Talk	advcl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 giving	punct
11	=	=	PUNCT	_	13 seems	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seems	nsubj
13	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Talk	parataxis
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 bostin	case
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 bostin	punct
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 bostin	punct
17	bostin	bostin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seems	obl
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 bostin	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 bostin	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 Country	punct
21	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Country	compound
22	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bostin	appos
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 Country	punct
24	=	=	PUNCT	_	25 brilliant	punct
25	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seems	parataxis
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 «	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 eh	punct
28	eh	eh	INTJ	_	13 seems	discourse
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 eh	punct
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 Canada	punct
31	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 eh	appos
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 Canada	punct
33	=	=	PUNCT	_	13 seems	punct
34	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Talk	discourse
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	36 is	punct
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 it	cop
37	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 is	advmod
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Talk	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Talk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here		this lesson		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give in a quote	present · progressive	life				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	seem	present	it			like bostin	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present		life			tree rules

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:33.

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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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