Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 8

A comma usually follows a fronted adverbial, an opening phrase that tells when, where or how: "After school, we went to the park."

Who acts: comma, opening phrase, we · What happens: follow, front, open, tell, go · To what, where: fronted adverbial, park · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Commas: lists, clauses and clarity» 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 (comma, opening phrase, we), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 comma	det
2	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follows	nsubj
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 follows	advmod
4	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adverbial	det
6	fronted	front	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 adverbial	amod
7	adverbial	adverbial	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follows	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 phrase	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 phrase	det
10	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 phrase	amod
11	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adverbial	appos
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 tells	nsubj
13	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 phrase	acl:relcl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 tells	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 where	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 when	conj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 how	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 when	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
21	After	after	ADP	_	22 school	case
22	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 school	punct
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tells	ccomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 park	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 park	det
28	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 follows	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 follows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	a comma	a fronted adverbial			usually property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adverbial=Theme
2	front	participle						tree rules
3	open	gerund						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	present	a opening phrase					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go in a quote	past	we		the park	after school		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to park=Initial_Location

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:033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.lesson:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-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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