Sharing, sleep and safe food, sentence 16

A boy in Texas ate chicken from a picnic that had sat in the sun for hours; that night he was sick again and again and needed a doctor because he could not keep water down.

Who acts: boy, picnic · What happens: eat, sit, be, need, not keep down · To what, where: chicken, picnic, sun, doctor, water

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing, sleep and safe food» 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, picnic), 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 ate	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 picnic	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 picnic	det
9	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sat	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	aux
12	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 picnic	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 sun	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 hours	case
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sat	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sick	punct
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sick	obl:unmarked
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sick	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sick	cop
23	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ate	parataxis
24	again	again	ADV	_	23 sick	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 again	cc
26	again	again	ADV	_	24 again	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 needed	cc
28	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ate	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 doctor	det
30	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 needed	obj
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	35 keep	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 keep	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 keep	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 keep	advmod
35	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 needed	advcl
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 keep	obj
37	down	down	ADP	_	35 keep	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	a boy in Texas	chicken	a picnic			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Patient
2	sit	past · perfect	a picnic		the sun	hour		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location
3	is	past	boy			again; night	sick property	tree rules
4	need	past	a boy in Texas not said here	a doctor				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme
5	not keep down	could	boy	water				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.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): R5-strong ×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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