Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 11
"We must do this again soon!" is a polite phrase to end a visit nicely; it is not a firm plan.
Who acts: We, visit · What happens: do, be, end, not be · To what, where: this, polite phrase, visit, firm plan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» 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, visit), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 phrase | parataxis |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 do | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 phrase | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 phrase | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 phrase | det |
| 12 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 phrase | amod |
| 13 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 end | mark |
| 15 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 phrase | acl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 visit | det |
| 17 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 end | obj |
| 18 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 15 end | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 plan | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 plan | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 plan | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 plan | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 plan | det |
| 24 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 plan | amod |
| 25 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 phrase | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 phrase | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | must | We | this | again | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | is a | present | a polite phrase | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | end | to-infinitive | a visit | nicely property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality visit=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not is a | present | visit | a firm plan | 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:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:11.
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, R7-rel-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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