Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 13

Many people in Japan bow to greet and to thank, and a small bow back is polite.

Who acts: Many people, bow back · What happens: bow, greet, thank, be

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 (Many people, bow back), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bow	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Japan	case
4	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
5	bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 polite	parataxis
6	to	to	PART	_	7 greet	mark
7	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bow	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thank	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 thank	mark
10	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 greet	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 polite	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 polite	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bow	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bow	amod
15	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 back	compound
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 polite	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 polite	cop
18	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	bow	present	Many people in Japan		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	Many people in Japan not said here		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	Many people in Japan not said here		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	bow back	polite 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:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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