Greeting friends and relatives, sentence 4
A girl in Sydney sees her cousin for the first time in two years and feels shy; she says hello and asks "What have you been doing?", and soon they are chatting as if they had never been apart.
Who acts: girl, you, Relatives · What happens: see, feel, say, ask, do, chat · To what, where: cousin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting friends and relatives» of the everyday 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 (girl, you, Relatives), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sydney | case |
| 4 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 time | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 feels | cc |
| 16 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sees | conj |
| 17 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feels | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 says | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 says | nsubj |
| 20 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sees | parataxis |
| 21 | hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 20 says | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 asks | cc |
| 23 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 says | conj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 doing | punct |
| 25 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 doing | obj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 doing | aux |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 doing | nsubj |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 doing | aux |
| 29 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 asks | ccomp |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 doing | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 doing | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 chatting | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 chatting | cc |
| 34 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 chatting | advmod |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 chatting | nsubj |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 chatting | aux |
| 37 | chatting | chat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sees | conj |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 apart | mark |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 as | fixed |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 apart | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 apart | aux |
| 42 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 44 apart | advmod |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 apart | cop |
| 44 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 37 chatting | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | a girl in Sydney | girl's cousin | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cousin=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | feel | present | a girl in Sydney not said here | shy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | girl not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | chat speech: other | present · progressive | Relatives = relative | soon property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | not is | past · perfect | Relatives = relative | apart property | 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:everyday:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.lesson:4.
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): R1-cc-next ×3, 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.
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