Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 64
And when the Man and the Horse and the Dog came home from hunting and asked the same questions same as before, the Woman said, ‘Her name is not Wild Cow any more, but the Giver of Good Food.
Who acts: Man, Woman, name · What happens: come, hunt, ask, say, not be, name · To what, where: same questions, Wild Cow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, Woman, name), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:929): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Man | det |
| 4 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Horse | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Horse | det |
| 7 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Man | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Dog | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dog | det |
| 10 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Man | conj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | advcl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 hunting | mark |
| 14 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 questions | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 questions | amod |
| 19 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 asked | obj |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 questions | amod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 before | mark |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 same | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Woman | det |
| 25 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Cow | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 Cow | punct |
| 29 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 name | nmod:poss |
| 30 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Cow | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 Cow | cop |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 Cow | advmod |
| 33 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Cow | amod |
| 34 | Cow | Cow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 said | ccomp |
| 35 | any | any | ADV | _ | 36 more | advmod |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 Cow | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Giver | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 Giver | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Giver | det |
| 40 | Giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Cow | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Food | case |
| 42 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Food | amod |
| 43 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Giver | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Man and the Horse and the Dog | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | the Man and the Horse and the Dog not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Man and the Horse and the Dog not said here | the same questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is a | present | Woman's name | Wild Cow but the Giver of Good Food | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | name | Woman | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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.
Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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