Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 12

When a present comes by post, you phone, message or write soon to say it arrived and that you liked it.

Who acts: present, you, post · What happens: come, phone, message, write, say, arrive · To what, where: post · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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 (present, you, post), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 comes	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 present	det
3	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 phone	advcl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 post	case
6	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 phone	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 phone	nsubj
9	phone	phone	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 message	punct
11	message	message	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 phone	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 write	cc
13	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 message	acl
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 write	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 write	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 arrived	nsubj
18	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 say	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 liked	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 liked	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 liked	nsubj
22	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 arrived	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 liked	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 phone	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	a present		by post	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by post=Location
2	phone	present	you			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	message	present	you not said here			tree rules
4	write	infinitive			soon property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	arrive	past	post			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	like	past	you	post		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:12.

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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