Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 17

Noah kicked the pew all through the sermon (the priest's long talk); next time he tried to listen for one thing the vicar said.

Who acts: Noah, vicar, priest · What happens: kick, try, listen, say, talk · To what, where: pew, sermon, next time, one thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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 (Noah, vicar, priest), 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	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pew	det
4	pew	pew	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 sermon	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 sermon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sermon	det
8	sermon	sermon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	obl
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 talk	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 priest	det
11	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 talk	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 priest	case
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 talk	amod
14	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sermon	appos
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 talk	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 kicked	punct
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	obl:unmarked
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tried	nsubj
20	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 time	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 listen	mark
22	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tried	xcomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 thing	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 thing	nummod
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 listen	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 vicar	det
27	vicar	vicar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 thing	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kicked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	Noah	the pew	the sermon	time		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pew=Patient through sermon=Location
2	try	past	Noah	next time not said here				tree rules
3	listen not said to happen	to-infinitive	Noah not said here				for one thing	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the vicar	one thing not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
5	talk		the priest					nom talk «communication intransitive»: 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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:17.

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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