Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 16

"Mustn't grumble" is an old-fashioned way of saying "I'd rather not complain"; many older people hide small pains so others won't worry.

Who acts: fashioned way, many older people, others · What happens: not grumble, be, say, not complain, hide, not worry · To what, where: fashioned way, small pains · 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 (fashioned way, many older people, others), 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 grumble	punct
2	Must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grumble	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 grumble	advmod
4	grumble	grumble	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 way	csubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 grumble	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 way	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fashioned	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
10	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 saying	mark
13	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 way	acl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 complain	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 complain	nsubj
16	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 complain	aux
17	rather	rather	ADV	_	19 complain	advmod
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 complain	advmod
19	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 saying	ccomp
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 complain	punct
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 hide	punct
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
23	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hide	nsubj
25	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grumble	parataxis
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pains	amod
27	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hide	obj
28	so	so	ADV	_	32 worry	advmod
29	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 worry	nsubj
30	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 worry	aux
31	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 worry	advmod
32	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hide	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 way	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=0, hedge=0, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not grumble speech: other in a quote	must			vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present		a fashioned way	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	a fashioned way not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not complain speech: other in a quote	would	a fashioned way = way		vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hide	present	many older people	small pains	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient
6	not worry	future	others		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:16.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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