Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing, sentence 13
In Multicultural London English "man" can mean "I", as in "Man's going shop."
Who acts: man · What happens: mean, go · To what, where: I, shop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing» 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 (man), 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 | _ | 4 English | case |
| 2 | Multicultural | Multicultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 English | amod |
| 3 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 English | compound |
| 4 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mean | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mean | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 mean | aux |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 I | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 mean | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 I | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 going | mark |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Man | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Man | punct |
| 17 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 going | nsubj |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 mean | advcl |
| 20 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 going | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | man | I | in Multicultural London English | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot i=Theme in english=Attribute | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Man | shop | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shop=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:038-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were.lesson:13.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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