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title: And when the Man and the Horse and the Dog came home from hunting an… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himsel
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 64

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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.

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**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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:12:64
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
29	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Cow	Cow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	_
35	any	any	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Giver	giver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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**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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