New partners and step-families, sentence 17

A step-mum who says "I'm not trying to replace your mum" means she wants a different kind of relationship with you, not to take your mum's place.

Who acts: step mum, up · What happens: say, not try, replace, mean, want, not take · To what, where: mum, different kind, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «New partners and step-families» of the adult life 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 (step mum, up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mum	det
2	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mum	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 step	punct
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mum	acl:relcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 trying	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 trying	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trying	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 trying	advmod
11	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 says	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 replace	mark
13	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 trying	xcomp
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mum	nmod:poss
15	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 replace	obj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 trying	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wants	nsubj
19	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 means	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 kind	det
21	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 kind	amod
22	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wants	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 relationship	case
24	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kind	nmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 relationship	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 take	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 take	mark
30	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 trying	parataxis
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mum	nmod:poss
32	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 place	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 mum	case
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a step mum		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not try in a quote	present · progressive	a step mum = mum		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	replace not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	a step mum = mum not said here	your mum	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mum=Co-Theme
4	mean	present	a step mum		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	want	present	up	a different kind of relationship with you	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme
6	not take	to-infinitive		your mum's place	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

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.

Licence: CC 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:adult-life:016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson:17.

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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