Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 12

Paparazzi are photographers who follow famous people to sell pictures; chasing someone home is frightening and dangerous, and no photo is worth that.

Who acts: Paparazzi, photographers, chasing, photo · What happens: be, follow, sell, chase · To what, where: photographers, famous people, pictures, someone

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» 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 (Paparazzi, photographers, chasing, photo), 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	Paparazzi	paparazzi	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 photographers	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 photographers	cop
3	photographers	photographer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 frightening	parataxis
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 follow	nsubj
5	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 photographers	acl:relcl
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 follow	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sell	mark
9	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 follow	advcl
10	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sell	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 frightening	punct
12	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 frightening	csubj
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 chasing	obj
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chasing	obj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 frightening	cop
16	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dangerous	cc
18	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 frightening	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 worth	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 worth	cc
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 photo	det
22	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 worth	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 worth	cop
24	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 frightening	conj
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 worth	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 photographers	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Paparazzi	photographers		tree rules
2	follow	present	photographers	famous people		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
3	sell	to-infinitive	photographers not said here	pictures		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
4	chase	gerund		someone		tree rules
5	is	present	chasing		frightening property	tree rules
6	be		chasing not said here			tree rules
7	is	present	no photo		worth property	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:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:12.

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. 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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