Planning before writing, sentence 15
In Scotland "jist" means just and "hen" is a friendly word for a girl or woman; in the American South "fixin' to" means about to.
Who acts: jist, hen · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: Scotland, friendly word
This is a sentence of the lesson «Planning before 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 (jist, hen), 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 | _ | 2 Scotland | case |
| 2 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 jist | punct |
| 4 | jist | jist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 jist | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 word | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hen | punct |
| 10 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 word | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hen | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 word | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 14 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 word | amod |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 girl | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 word | nmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 woman | cc |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 girl | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 fixin | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 South | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 South | det |
| 24 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 South | amod |
| 25 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 fixin | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 fixin | punct |
| 27 | fixin | fixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | parataxis |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 fixin | punct |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 means | mark |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 to | punct |
| 31 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | conj |
| 32 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 means | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 about | fixed |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | jist | Scotland | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | hen | a friendly word | for a girl or woman | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mean | present | jist not said here | about property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:15.
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 ×1, 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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