Taking too much, sentence 7
Greed is wanting more than your share; envy is being sore that someone else has something good.
Who acts: Greed, envy, someone, your · What happens: want, be, have, share · To what, where: more, something
This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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 (Greed, envy, someone, your), 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 | Greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanting | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanting | aux |
| 3 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 wanting | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 share | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 share | nmod:poss |
| 7 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 sore | punct |
| 9 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sore | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sore | aux |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sore | cop |
| 12 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wanting | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 has | mark |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 has | nsubj |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 someone | advmod |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sore | ccomp |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 has | obj |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 something | amod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · progressive | Greed | more | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present · progressive | envy | sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | someone | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 4 | share | your | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:7.
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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