Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers, sentence 3

Speech can be split in the middle: "If you're ready," said Mum, "we'll go." The second part starts with a small letter because it is still the same sentence.

Who acts: you, Mum, we, second part, speech · What happens: split, be, say, go, start · To what, where: Speech, middle, 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 (you, Mum, we, second 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	Speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 split	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 split	aux:pass
4	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 ready	punct
10	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 ready	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 ready	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ready	cop
13	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 go	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ready	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 ready	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 split	parataxis
17	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Mum	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Mum	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 starts	punct
25	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 part	det
26	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 part	amod
27	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 starts	nsubj
28	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 go	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 letter	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 letter	det
31	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 letter	amod
32	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 starts	obl
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	39 sentence	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 sentence	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 sentence	cop
36	still	still	ADV	_	39 sentence	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sentence	det
38	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sentence	amod
39	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 starts	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 split	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	can · passive		Speech	the middle			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				ready property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Mum					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go in a quote	future	we					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	start	present	the second part				with a small letter	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality
6	is a	present	speech	the same sentence		still		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:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson:3.

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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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