Promises, sentence 25
A boy in Ohio promised to keep his little brother safe at the playground and then went off with friends; his brother wandered to the road and a neighbour brought him back.
Who acts: boy, brother, neighbour · What happens: promise, keep, go off, wander, bring back · To what, where: little brother, road, brother
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 (boy, brother, neighbour), 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 | 5 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 promised | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brother | amod |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 11 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 playground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 playground | det |
| 14 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 safe | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 went | advmod |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 promised | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 friends | case |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 wandered | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wandered | nsubj |
| 24 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 promised | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 road | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 road | det |
| 27 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wandered | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 brought | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 neighbour | det |
| 30 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brought | nsubj |
| 31 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wandered | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 brought | obj |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 brought | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | a boy in Ohio | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | a boy in Ohio not said here | boy's little brother | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | |||
| 3 | go off | past | a boy in Ohio not said here | then | with friends | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | wander | past | boy's brother | the road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to road=Destination | ||||
| 5 | bring back | past | a neighbour | brother | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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:25.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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