Promises to family, sentence 19
Telling a secret you promised to keep can hurt a friendship badly.
Who acts: you, Telling · What happens: tell, promise, keep, hurt · To what, where: secret, friendship · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» 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 (you, Telling), 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hurt | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 secret | det |
| 3 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 promised | nsubj |
| 5 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 secret | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 promised | xcomp |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurt | aux |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 friendship | det |
| 11 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurt | obj |
| 12 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 hurt | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | 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 | gerund | a secret | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | you | a secret not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hurt | can | Telling | a friendship | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friendship=Patient |
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:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:19.
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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