Promises to friends and to yourself, sentence 6

Nobody told him off — there was nobody to — but when his friends played with their new balls, he felt silly.

Who acts: Nobody, friends, Josh · What happens: tell off, be, play, feel · To what, where: Josh

This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to friends and to yourself» 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 (Nobody, friends, Josh), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 told	compound:prt
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 was	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 was	nsubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 nobody	fixed
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 felt	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 played	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friends	nmod:poss
14	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 played	nsubj
15	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 felt	advcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 balls	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 balls	nmod:poss
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 balls	amod
19	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 played	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 played	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 felt	nsubj
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
23	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 felt	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past	Nobody	Josh			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	be	past	nobody		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play	past	Josh's friends			with sweets's new balls	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ball=Theme
4	feel	past	Josh			silly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself.lesson:6.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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