Promises, sentence 5
Sometimes you cannot keep a promise, because you are ill or plans change.
Who acts: you, plans · What happens: not keep, be, change · To what, where: promise
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 (you, plans), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 keep | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 keep | advmod |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 promise | det |
| 7 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 ill | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 ill | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ill | cop |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | advcl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 change | cc |
| 14 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 change | nsubj |
| 15 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ill | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep | can | you | a promise | sometimes property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | plans | tree rules |
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:5.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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