Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up, sentence 28

When a big brother or sister says «tell anyone and I'll kill you» about something embarrassing, like a crush, it usually just means «please keep this private», not a real threat; you keep out of it.

Who acts: big brother, it, you · What happens: say, tell, kill, mean, keep, keep out · To what, where: anyone, you, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» 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 (big brother, it, you), 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	_	7 says	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 sister	cc
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brother	conj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 means	advcl
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 tell	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kill	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 kill	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 kill	aux
14	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 kill	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 kill	punct
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 something	case
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 kill	obl
19	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 something	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crush	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 crush	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 crush	det
23	crush	crush	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 something	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 means	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 means	nsubj
26	usually	usually	ADV	_	28 means	advmod
27	just	just	ADV	_	28 means	advmod
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 keep	punct
30	please	please	INTJ	_	31 keep	discourse
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 means	ccomp
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 keep	obj
33	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 keep	xcomp
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 keep	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 threat	punct
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 threat	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 threat	det
38	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 threat	amod
39	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 keep	parataxis
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 keep	punct
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 keep	nsubj
42	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 means	parataxis
43	out	out	ADV	_	42 keep	advmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 keep	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a big brother or sister				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			anyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
3	kill in a quote	future	a big brother or sister = brother	you		about something	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	mean	present	it			usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	keep in a quote	infinitive		this		private property	tree rules
6	keep out	present	you			of threat; out property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:28.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. 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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