Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 6
Words like "sources close to", "friends fear" and "everyone says" often mean one unnamed person, or nobody at all.
Who acts: friends, fear, Words · What happens: fear, say, mean · To what, where: one unnamed person · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (friends, fear, Words), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 sources | case |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sources | punct |
| 4 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Words | nmod |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sources | amod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 close | fixed |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 close | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Words | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fear | punct |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fear | nsubj |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 says | nsubj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fear | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 says | cc |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 15 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 says | nsubj |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | conj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 mean | advmod |
| 19 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 person | nummod |
| 21 | unnamed | unnamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 person | amod |
| 22 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mean | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 nobody | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 nobody | cc |
| 25 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 person | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 nobody | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear in a quote | friends | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | fear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | Words like sources | one unnamed person | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic |
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:6.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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