Relative clauses, sentence 23

In some dialects people say «the lass what helped me»; in standard English it is «the girl who helped me».

Who acts: people, lass, girl · What happens: say, help, be · To what, where: lass, dialects, people, girl, standard English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Relative clauses» 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 (people, lass, girl), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 dialects	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 dialects	det
3	dialects	dialect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	obl
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 lass	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lass	det
8	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
9	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	10 helped	nsubj
10	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lass	acl:relcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 helped	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 helped	punct
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 girl	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 English	case
15	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 English	amod
16	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 girl	obl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 girl	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 girl	cop
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 girl	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 girl	det
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	parataxis
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 helped	nsubj
23	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 girl	acl:relcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 helped	obj
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 girl	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	people	the lass		some dialects	tree rules
2	help in a quote	past	the lass		people		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
3	is a in a quote	present	lass	the girl		standard English	tree rules
4	help in a quote	past	the girl		people		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary

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:030-relative-clauses.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): R6-punct-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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