Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 15
Kayla in London says, «Bare words have jobs, innit» (bare is London slang for lots of).
Who acts: Kayla, Bare words, bare · What happens: say, have, innit, be · To what, where: jobs, London slang · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Word classes: the jobs words do» of the english 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 (Kayla, Bare words, bare), 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 | Kayla | Kayla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 London | case |
| 3 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kayla | nmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | Bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 innit | punct |
| 12 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | conj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 slang | punct |
| 15 | bare | bare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slang | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 slang | cop |
| 17 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 slang | compound |
| 18 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 innit | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 lots | case |
| 20 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 slang | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lots | nmod |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 slang | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | 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 | present | Kayla in London | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Bare words | jobs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient | ||||
| 3 | innit in a quote | infinitive | Kayla in London not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | bare | London slang | for lots | 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:english:027-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do.lesson:15.
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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