Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers, sentence 14
Dialect and slang can be written inside speech marks to show a character's voice.
What happens: write, show · To what, where: Dialect, speech marks, voice
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: 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 | Dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 written | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 slang | cc |
| 3 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dialect | conj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 written | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 written | aux:pass |
| 6 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 marks | case |
| 8 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marks | compound |
| 9 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 written | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 show | mark |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 written | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 character | det |
| 13 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 character | case |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 show | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 written | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | can · passive | Dialect and slang | speech marks | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | a character's voice | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent voice=Recipient |
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:14.
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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