Going where you're not allowed, sentence 9

That evening he told Dad, who was very serious with him; on Saturday he told it at confession too, and walked home lighter, with a promise never to touch them again.

Who acts: Tom, Dad · What happens: tell, be, walk, not touch · To what, where: Dad, finger, confession, fright · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Going where you're not allowed» 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 (Tom, Dad), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 serious	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 serious	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 serious	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 serious	advmod
10	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Dad	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 serious	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 Saturday	case
15	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 told	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 confession	case
20	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obl
21	too	too	ADV	_	17 told	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 walked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 walked	cc
24	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	conj
25	home	home	ADV	_	24 walked	advmod
26	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 walked	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 touch	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 promise	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 promise	det
30	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walked	obl
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 touch	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 touch	mark
33	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 promise	acl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 touch	obj
35	again	again	ADV	_	33 touch	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Tom		Dad		evening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient
2	is	past	Dad					with Tom; serious property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	Tom		finger	confession	saturday		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
4	walk	past	Tom not said here					with a promise; home, light property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not touch	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	fright			again		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.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 ×3, 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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