Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 4

A girl in Melbourne wants to tell her dad something while he is talking to a neighbour; she puts her hand gently on his arm and waits, and he turns to her at the next pause.

Who acts: girl, Melbourne · What happens: want, tell, talk, put, wait, turn · To what, where: something, dad, hand, arm, girl, next pause · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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, Melbourne), 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 wants	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Melbourne	case
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dad	nmod:poss
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	iobj
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 tell	obj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 talking	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 talking	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 talking	aux
14	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 tell	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 neighbour	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 neighbour	det
17	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 talking	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 puts	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 puts	nsubj
20	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wants	parataxis
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 puts	obj
23	gently	gently	ADV	_	20 puts	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 arm	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 arm	nmod:poss
26	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 puts	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 waits	cc
28	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 puts	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 turns	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 turns	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 turns	nsubj
32	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wants	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 turns	obl
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 pause	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pause	det
37	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pause	amod
38	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turns	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	a girl in Melbourne					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	a girl in Melbourne not said here	something	girl's dad			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient something=Topic
3	talk	present · progressive	Melbourne				to a neighbour	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Co-Agent
4	put	present	girl	girl's hand		Melbourne's arm	gently property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on arm=Destination
5	wait	present	girl not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	turn	present	Melbourne		girl	the next pause		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to her=Source at pause=Trajectory

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:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting.lesson:4.

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 ×2, 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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