Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 9

On a narrow pavement friends walk in a line and step aside for prams, wheelchairs, canes and walking frames, and pass slowly and politely, saying excuse me.

Who acts: friends · What happens: walk, step, pass, say, excuse · To what, where: narrow pavement, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» 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 (friends), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 pavement	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pavement	det
3	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pavement	amod
4	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obl
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walk	nsubj
6	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 line	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 line	det
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 step	cc
11	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 walk	conj
12	aside	aside	ADV	_	11 step	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 prams	case
14	prams	pram	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 step	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wheelchairs	punct
16	wheelchairs	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 prams	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 canes	punct
18	canes	cane	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 prams	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 frames	cc
20	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 frames	compound
21	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 prams	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pass	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pass	cc
24	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 walk	conj
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	24 pass	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 politely	cc
27	politely	politely	ADV	_	25 slowly	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saying	punct
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 pass	advcl
30	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 saying	xcomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 excuse	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	present	friends		a narrow pavement	in a line	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pavement=Trajectory
2	step	infinitive	friends not said here			for prams and wheelchairs and canes and walking frames; aside property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pass	infinitive	friends not said here			slowly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	friends not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	excuse	infinitive	friends not said here	me			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:9.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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