Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, sentence 10
"We don't talk to that side of the family" means there was a falling-out, a feud, and some relatives stopped speaking.
Who acts: We, falling out, relatives · What happens: not talk, mean, be, stop, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» 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 (We, falling out, relatives), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 talk | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 talk | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 talk | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 talk | advmod |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 means | csubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 side | det |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talk | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 family | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 family | det |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 talk | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 out | det |
| 17 | falling | falling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 out | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 out | punct |
| 19 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feud | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 feud | det |
| 22 | feud | feud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 out | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stopped | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stopped | cc |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 relatives | det |
| 26 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 stopped | nsubj |
| 27 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 was | conj |
| 28 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 stopped | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not talk in a quote | present · do-support | We | to that side of the family | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to side=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | be | past | a falling out and a feud | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | some relatives | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | gerund | some relatives not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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