More greetings and making introductions, sentence 9
When someone introduces themselves, you answer "Nice to meet you, I'm ..." to finish the introduction.
Who acts: someone, you · What happens: introduce, answer, meet, finish · To what, where: name, you, introduction · 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 (someone, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 introduces | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 introduces | nsubj |
| 3 | introduces | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | advcl |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 introduces | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 answer | nsubj |
| 7 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nice | punct |
| 9 | Nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answer | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 meet | mark |
| 11 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Nice | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 meet | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 'm | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Nice | parataxis |
| 16 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 finish | mark |
| 19 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answer | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 introduction | det |
| 21 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finish | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | present | someone | name | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | you | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | finish | to-infinitive | you not said here | the introduction | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality introduction=Eventuality |
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:9.
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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