More greetings and making introductions, sentence 8

When introducing a younger person to an older one, you say the older person's name first.

Who acts: you, older person · What happens: introduce, say, name · To what, where: younger person, older one, name · 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 (you, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 introducing	advmod
2	introducing	introduce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 say	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 introducing	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 one	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 introducing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 introducing	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 person	det
14	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 person	amod
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 name	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 person	case
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 say	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	introduce	gerund	you not said here	a younger person	a older one		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent person=Patient to one=Co-Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	you	the older person's name		first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
3	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:8.

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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