Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 4

A man who comes home at strange hours may be a hospital porter on night shifts.

Who acts: man · What happens: come, be · To what, where: hospital porter, night shifts

This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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 (man), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 porter	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 comes	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 hours	case
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hours	amod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 comes	obl
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 porter	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 porter	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 porter	det
12	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 porter	compound
13	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 shifts	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shifts	compound
16	shifts	shift	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 porter	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 porter	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	a man				hour	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	may	a man	a hospital porter		night shifts			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:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.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): no change. 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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