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title: The bargain: «help my Man to hunt through the day and guard this Cav… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The bargain: «help my Man to hunt through the day and guard this Cave at night, and I will give you as many roast bones as you need.» The Woman names him «the First Friend». Who acts: Man, you, Woman. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 20

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The bargain: «help my Man to hunt through the day and guard this Cave at night, and I will give you as many roast bones as you need.» The Woman names him «the First Friend».

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**Who acts:** Man, you, Woman · **What happens:** help, hunt, guard, give, need, name · **To what, where:** Man, Cave, many roast bones, you

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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, you, 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:20
# text = The bargain: «help my Man to hunt through the day and guard this Cave at night, and I will give you as many roast bones as you need.» The Woman names him «the First Friend».
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:acl
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
34	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:det
35	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	names	name	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	41	amod	_	_
41	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my Man |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my Man *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **guard** *in a quote* | infinitive | my Man *not said here* | this Cave |  |  | night |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | future | Man | many roast bones | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bone=Theme |
| 5 | **need** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **name** | present | the Woman | Man |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:20`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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

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