Borrowing and debt, sentence 17
Buy now pay later splits a purchase into instalments; it is still borrowing, with charges if a payment is late.
Who acts: purchase, payment · What happens: buy, pay, split, borrow, be · To what, where: purchase, instalments
This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowing and debt» 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 (purchase, payment), 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 | Buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 splits | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | _ | 1 Buy | advmod |
| 3 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Buy | conj |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 pay | advmod |
| 5 | splits | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 purchase | det |
| 7 | purchase | purchase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splits | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 instalments | case |
| 9 | instalments | instalment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 splits | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 borrowing | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 borrowing | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 borrowing | aux |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 borrowing | advmod |
| 14 | borrowing | borrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 splits | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 charges | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 charges | case |
| 17 | charges | charge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 borrowing | obl |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 late | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 payment | det |
| 20 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 late | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 late | cop |
| 22 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 borrowing | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 splits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | infinitive | now | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pay | infinitive | late property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | split | present | a purchase | into instalments result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent purchase=Patient into instalment=Result | ||||
| 4 | borrow | present · progressive | purchase | still | with charges | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | a payment | late 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:008-borrowing-and-debt.lesson:17.
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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