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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 9

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That night, Best Beloved, they ate wild sheep roasted on the hot stones, and flavoured with wild garlic and wild pepper; and wild duck stuffed with wild rice and wild fenugreek and wild coriander; and marrow-bones of wild oxen; and wild cherries, and wild grenadillas.

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**Who acts:** feet · **What happens:** eat, roast, flavour, stuff · **To what, where:** wild sheep, wild duck

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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 (feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:12:9
# text = That night, Best Beloved, they ate wild sheep roasted on the hot stones, and flavoured with wild garlic and wild pepper; and wild duck stuffed with wild rice and wild fenugreek and wild coriander; and marrow-bones of wild oxen; and wild cherries, and wild grenadillas.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	flavoured	flavour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	garlic	garlic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
29	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	fenugreek	fenugreek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	coriander	coriander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	marrow	marrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	cherries	cherry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	grenadillas	grenadilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | feet *= foot* | wild sheep |  |  | night | marrow bones of wild oxen *obl*; wild cherries *obl*; wild grenadillas *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient |
| 2 | **roast** | participle |  | wild sheep *not said here* |  |  |  | on the hot stones | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on stone=Instrument |
| 3 | **flavour** | participle | feet *= foot* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with wild garlic and wild pepper | tree rules |
| 4 | **stuff** | participle |  | wild duck *not said here* |  |  |  | with wild rice and wild fenugreek and wild coriander | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rice=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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**Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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