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 8

The Cat agrees, but adds «still I am the Cat who walks by himself», so the Man says he will throw his boots and axe whenever he meets him.

Who acts: Cat, Man, pot · What happens: agree, add, be, walk, say, throw · To what, where: Cat, boots, mouse · 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 (Cat, Man, pot), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agrees	nsubj
3	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 adds	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 adds	cc
6	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 agrees	conj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 adds	punct
8	still	still	ADV	_	6 adds	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Cat	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Cat	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Cat	det
12	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adds	ccomp
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 walks	nsubj
14	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Cat	acl:relcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 walks	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 walks	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 says	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Man	det
21	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 says	nsubj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 agrees	parataxis
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 throw	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 throw	aux
25	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 says	ccomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 boots	nmod:poss
27	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 throw	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 axe	cc
29	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 boots	conj
30	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 meets	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 meets	nsubj
32	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 throw	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 meets	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agrees	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	the Cat				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	add speech: assert	present	the Cat not said here		still		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	the Cat = cat	the Cat			tree rules
4	walk in a quote	present	the Cat			by pot	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory
5	say speech: assert	present	the Man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	throw	future	pot	pot's boots and axe			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme
7	meet	present	pot	mouse		whenever property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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:8.

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, 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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