Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 14

"We'll see" often means "probably not, but I don't want to say no now", and sometimes it really means "I need to think".

Who acts: We, calm, it · What happens: see, not mean, not want, say, mean, need · 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, calm, it), 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 see	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	ccomp
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 means	advmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 not	punct
9	probably	probably	ADV	_	10 not	advmod
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 means	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 want	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 want	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 want	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 want	advmod
16	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 want	xcomp
19	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	18 say	discourse
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 say	advmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 now	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 means	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 means	cc
24	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 means	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 means	nsubj
26	really	really	ADV	_	27 means	advmod
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	conj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 need	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 need	nsubj
30	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 means	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 think	mark
32	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 need	xcomp
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 need	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	We			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not mean	present			often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not want in a quote	present · do-support	a calm = calm			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	a calm = calm not said here	now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	mean	present	it		sometimes property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	need in a quote	present	a calm = calm			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	think speech: other not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	a calm = calm not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «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.

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:14.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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