Promises to friends and to yourself, sentence 7
He started saving again, and this time he kept the money in a jar where he could see it grow.
Who acts: Josh, money · What happens: start, save, keep, see, grow · To what, where: money, jar
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 (Josh, money), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 started | xcomp |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 saving | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kept | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 started | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 money | det |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 jar | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 jar | det |
| 15 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 see | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 jar | acl:relcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 see | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Josh | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | save | gerund | Josh not said here | again | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | Josh | the money | a jar | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme in jar=Location | ||
| 4 | see | could | Josh | money | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grow | infinitive | money not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself.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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