Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers, sentence 10

In split speech, commas go around the "said" part, and the second part starts with a small letter if it continues the same sentence.

Who acts: commas, second part, part · What happens: go, say, start, continue · To what, where: split speech, same sentence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers» 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 (commas, second part, part), 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 speech	case
2	split	split	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 speech	compound
3	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 speech	punct
5	commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	around	around	ADP	_	12 part	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 part	det
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 part	amod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 starts	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 starts	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 part	det
16	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 part	amod
17	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 starts	nsubj
18	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 letter	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 letter	det
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 letter	amod
22	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 starts	obl
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 continues	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 continues	nsubj
25	continues	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 starts	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sentence	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sentence	amod
28	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 continues	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	commas		split speech	around the said part	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around part=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert in a quote	participle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	start	present	the second part			with a small letter	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality
4	continue a condition, not said to happen	present	part	the same sentence			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme

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:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson:10.

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 ×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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