Birthday parties, sentence 4
A boy in Montreal cannot go to a party because of a football match; he writes "Thank you for inviting me, I'm sorry I can't come", and his friend is not hurt.
Who acts: boy, I · What happens: not go, write, thank, invite, be, not come · To what, where: party, you, me, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birthday parties» 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 (boy, I), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Montreal | case |
| 4 | Montreal | Montreal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 go | advmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 party | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 party | det |
| 10 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 15 match | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 because | fixed |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 match | det |
| 14 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 match | compound |
| 15 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 writes | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 writes | nsubj |
| 18 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | parataxis |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Thank | punct |
| 20 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 writes | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 Thank | obj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 inviting | mark |
| 23 | inviting | invite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 Thank | advcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 inviting | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sorry | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 sorry | nsubj |
| 27 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 sorry | cop |
| 28 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Thank | parataxis |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 come | nsubj |
| 30 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 come | aux |
| 31 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 come | advmod |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sorry | ccomp |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Thank | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hurt | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 hurt | cc |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 friend | nmod:poss |
| 37 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 hurt | aux:pass |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 hurt | advmod |
| 40 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 go | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | can | a boy in Montreal | a party | because a football match | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | write | present | boy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | boy not said here | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | invite in a quote | gerund | boy not said here | me | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | I | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not come in a quote | can | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not hurt | present · passive | boy's friend | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:130-birthday-parties.lesson:4.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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