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title: The Man was wild too, until the Woman made a home: a dry Cave, clean… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Man was wild too, until the Woman made a home: a dry Cave, clean sand on the floor, a fire at the back and a horse-skin curtain over the door. Who acts: Man, Woman. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» of the b
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 1

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The Man was wild too, until the Woman made a home: a dry Cave, clean sand on the floor, a fire at the back and a horse-skin curtain over the door.

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**Who acts:** Man, Woman · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** home

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» 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 (Man, Woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:1
# text = The Man was wild too, until the Woman made a home: a dry Cave, clean sand on the floor, a fire at the back and a horse-skin curtain over the door.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
35	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Man |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | the Woman | a home |  |  |  | a dry Cave and clean sand on the floor and a fire at the back and a skin curtain over the door *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Product |

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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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**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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