Promises, sentence 13
A pinky promise is still a promise, and people remember broken ones.
Who acts: pinky promise, people · What happens: be, remember, break · To what, where: promise, broken ones
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises» 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 (pinky promise, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 promise | det |
| 2 | pinky | pinky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promise | compound |
| 3 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 promise | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 promise | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 promise | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 promise | det |
| 7 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remember | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 remember | cc |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 remember | nsubj |
| 11 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 promise | conj |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 remember | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a pinky promise | a promise | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remember | present | people | broken ones | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:199-promises.lesson:13.
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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