Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 9

"Sources close to" means the paper is not naming who told it; it can be a real friend, a guess or nobody, and the reader cannot check.

Who acts: Sources, paper, reader · What happens: mean, not name, tell, be, not check · To what, where: paper, real friend · 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 (Sources, paper, reader), 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	_	2 Sources	punct
2	Sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 means	nsubj
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Sources	amod
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 close	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 paper	det
8	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 naming	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 naming	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 naming	advmod
11	naming	name	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 means	ccomp
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 naming	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 friend	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 friend	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 friend	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 friend	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 friend	det
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 friend	amod
21	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 guess	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 guess	det
24	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 friend	conj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 nobody	cc
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 guess	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 check	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 check	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 reader	det
30	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 check	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 check	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 check	advmod
33	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 means	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mean	present	Sources			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not name	present · progressive	the paper			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past			paper	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
4	is a	can	paper	a real friend and a guess		tree rules
5	not check	can	the reader			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:9.

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 ×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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