Promises, sentence 26
A girl in Leeds kept promising to return a friend's book and never did; the friend stopped lending her things.
Who acts: girl, friend · What happens: keep, promise, return, stop, lend · To what, where: book, things
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 (girl, friend), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | promising | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 return | mark |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 promising | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 book | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 friend | case |
| 12 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 return | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 did | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 did | advmod |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stopped | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 friend | det |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stopped | nsubj |
| 19 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | parataxis |
| 20 | lending | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 stopped | xcomp |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 things | nmod:poss |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lending | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | 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 | keep | past | a girl in Leeds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | gerund | a girl in Leeds not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | a girl in Leeds not said here | a friend's book | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | the friend | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | lend | gerund | the friend not said here | girl's things | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:26.
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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