Rude words at the table, sentence 26
Older people's stories often hold family history that you can only learn from them.
Who acts: stories, you · What happens: hold, learn · To what, where: family history
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rude words at the table» 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 (stories, 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 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stories | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 people | case |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hold | nsubj |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 hold | advmod |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 history | compound |
| 8 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 learn | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 learn | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 learn | aux |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 learn | advmod |
| 13 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 history | acl:relcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 learn | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Older people's stories | family history | often property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme | |||
| 2 | learn | can | you | family history | from stories = story | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent that=Topic from they=Source |
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:354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.lesson:26.
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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