Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, sentence 4

There are not enough chairs, Uncle Rob is missing because of a row, and Aunt Pam says "Blood is thicker than water" over the trifle.

Who acts: enough chairs, Uncle Rob, Aunt, Blood · What happens: be, say · To what, where: trifle · 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 (enough chairs, Uncle Rob, Aunt, Blood), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 enough	advmod
4	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chairs	amod
5	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 missing	punct
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rob	flat
8	Rob	Rob	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 missing	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 missing	cop
10	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 are	parataxis
11	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	14 row	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 because	fixed
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 row	det
14	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 missing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 says	cc
17	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 says	nsubj
18	Pam	Pam	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Aunt	flat
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 thicker	punct
21	Blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thicker	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 thicker	cop
23	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 says	ccomp
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 water	case
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thicker	obl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 thicker	punct
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 trifle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trifle	det
29	trifle	trifle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	enough chairs	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Uncle Rob		because a row; missing property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	Aunt	the trifle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	Blood		than water; thick property	tree rules

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:017-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family.lesson:4.

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 ×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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