Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 11
A wave from a stranger may be meant for someone behind you, and you never go over to a stranger.
Who acts: you · What happens: mean, not go over · To what, where: wave
This is a sentence of the lesson «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» 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 (you), 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 wave | det |
| 2 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 stranger | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stranger | det |
| 5 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wave | nmod |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 meant | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 meant | aux:pass |
| 8 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 someone | case |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 meant | obl |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 someone | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 go | advmod |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 meant | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 stranger | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stranger | det |
| 21 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | may · passive | a wave from a stranger | for someone | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for someone=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not go over | present | you | to a stranger; over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.lesson:11.
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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