Big feelings in big people, sentence 4
At bedtime Mum explains he had an awful week at work, and Dad comes up and says, "Sorry, mate.
Who acts: Mum, dog, Dad · What happens: explain, have, come up, say · To what, where: bedtime, work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» 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 (Mum, dog, Dad), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 bedtime | case |
| 2 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 explains | obl |
| 3 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 explains | nsubj |
| 4 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 explains | ccomp |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 week | det |
| 8 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 week | amod |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 comes | cc |
| 14 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 explains | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 comes | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 says | cc |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 comes | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 21 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 15 comes | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sorry | punct |
| 23 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Sorry | vocative |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 explains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | Mum | bedtime | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | past | dog | work | week | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | come up | present | Dad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Dad not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
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:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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