Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 9
When someone sneezes, many people in English-speaking countries say "Bless you".
Who acts: someone, many people · What happens: sneeze, speak, say, bless · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» 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, many people), 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 | 3 sneezes | advmod |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 sneezes | nsubj |
| 3 | sneezes | sneeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 say | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 countries | case |
| 8 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 speaking | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 speaking | punct |
| 10 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 countries | amod |
| 11 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 people | nmod |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Bless | punct |
| 14 | Bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 say | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 Bless | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Bless | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneeze | present | someone | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | many people in speaking countries | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bless in a quote | infinitive | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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