The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 23
Talk in this lesson: «salty» = annoyed; «hun» = dear; «yinz» (Pittsburgh) = you lot; «ginnel» (North England) = a narrow alley; «bostin'» (Black Country) = great.
Who acts: you, ginnel · What happens: talk, lot, = · To what, where: yinz, lesson
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» of the books 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 (you, ginnel), 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 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 « | punct |
| 6 | « | « | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 lesson | appos |
| 7 | salty | salty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 « | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 salty | punct |
| 9 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 10 annoyed | punct |
| 10 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 » | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 hun | punct |
| 13 | hun | hun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 » | compound |
| 14 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 annoyed | obl |
| 15 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 16 dear | punct |
| 16 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 annoyed | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 yinz | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 yinz | nsubj |
| 19 | yinz | yinz | PROPN | _ | 1 Talk | obl |
| 20 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 yinz | list |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Pittsburgh | punct |
| 22 | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 » | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Pittsburgh | punct |
| 24 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 26 lot | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 lot | nsubj |
| 26 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 » | appos |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 ginnel | punct |
| 28 | « | « | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 ginnel | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ginnel | ginnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 = | nsubj |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 ginnel | punct |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 England | punct |
| 32 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 England | compound |
| 33 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 ginnel | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 England | punct |
| 35 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 38 alley | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 alley | det |
| 37 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 alley | amod |
| 38 | alley | alley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 England | appos |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 bostin | punct |
| 40 | « | « | CCONJ | _ | 41 bostin | cc |
| 41 | bostin | bostin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 England | appos |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 bostin | punct |
| 43 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 England | flat |
| 44 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 Country | punct |
| 45 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Country | compound |
| 46 | Country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 England | appos |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 Country | punct |
| 48 | = | = | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | ccomp |
| 49 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 = | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | yinz | this lesson | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lot | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | = | present | «'s ginnel | great 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:books:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:23.
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 ×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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