More greetings and making introductions, sentence 2

To introduce a friend to an older person, the old custom is to say the older person's name first: "Grandma, this is Tom."

Who acts: old custom, this, older person · What happens: introduce, be, name · To what, where: friend, Tom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «More greetings and making introductions» 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 (old custom, this, older person), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 introduce	mark
2	introduce	introduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 say	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 friend	det
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 introduce	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 person	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 person	amod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 introduce	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 custom	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 custom	amod
12	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 say	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 person	det
17	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 person	amod
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 name	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 person	case
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	obj
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 say	advmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Grandma	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Grandma	punct
24	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Tom	vocative
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Tom	punct
26	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 Tom	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 Tom	cop
28	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 say	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 introduce	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 introduce	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	introduce	to-infinitive	the old custom not said here	a friend	to a older person	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent friend=Patient to person=Co-Patient
2	be speech: assert	present	the old custom		first, say property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	this	Tom	Grandma vocative	tree rules
4	name		the older person			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson:2.

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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