How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 15
Chains of "she said" twist the truth; ask the person yourself.
Who acts: Hannah, Chains, person · What happens: say, twist, ask · To what, where: Chains, truth, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face» 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 (Hannah, Chains, person), 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 | Chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 twist | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 " | case |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Chains | acl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 7 | twist | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 truth | det |
| 9 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 twist | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 twist | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ask | obj |
| 14 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 ask | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 twist | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Hannah | Chains not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chain=Topic | ||||
| 2 | twist | infinitive | Chains | the truth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the person | yourself | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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.
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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 ×2, 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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