Promises, sentence 16
A promise to look after a pet means caring for it every day, because the animal depends on you.
Who acts: promise, animal · What happens: look, mean, care, depend
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 (promise, animal), 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 promise | det |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 look | mark |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promise | acl |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 pet | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pet | det |
| 7 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 means | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caring | obl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caring | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 depends | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 depends | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 animal | det |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 depends | nsubj |
| 18 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 depends | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | to-infinitive | a promise not said here | after a pet | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | a promise | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | care not said to happen | gerund | a promise not said here | day | for pet | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | |||
| 4 | depend | present | the animal | on you | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on 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:199-promises.lesson:16.
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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