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title: She offers him as many bones as he needs if he helps the Man hunt by… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: She offers him as many bones as he needs if he helps the Man hunt by day and guards the Cave at night. Who acts: Woman, Cat. 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 with it
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 6

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She offers him as many bones as he needs if he helps the Man hunt by day and guards the Cave at night.

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**Who acts:** Woman, Cat · **What happens:** offer, need, help, guard · **To what, where:** many bones, Cat, Man hunt, Cave

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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 (Woman, Cat), 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:6
# text = She offers him as many bones as he needs if he helps the Man hunt by day and guards the Cave at night.
# 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 ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	guards	guard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **offer** | present | Woman | many bones | Cat |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal bone=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | Cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **help** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Cat | the Man hunt |  |  | day |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **guard** | present | Cat *not said here* | the Cave |  |  | night |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Beneficiary |

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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 ×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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