Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 16
Ruby laughed out loud when the vicar (the priest) mixed up his words; when she said sorry, he laughed and said he does it a lot.
Who acts: Ruby, vicar · What happens: laugh out, mix up, say, laugh, do, word · To what, where: words, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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 (Ruby, vicar), 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 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 laughed | advmod |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 2 laughed | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 mixed | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vicar | det |
| 7 | vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mixed | nsubj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 priest | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 priest | det |
| 10 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vicar | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 priest | punct |
| 12 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 mixed | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 words | nmod:poss |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mixed | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 said | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 laughed | advcl |
| 20 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 laughed | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 laughed | nsubj |
| 23 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 laughed | conj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 does | nsubj |
| 27 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | ccomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 does | obj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 lot | det |
| 30 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 does | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh out | past | Ruby | loud, out property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mix up | past | the vicar | vicar's words | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: apologize | past | Ruby | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | laugh | past | vicar | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vicar not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | do | present | vicar | end | a lot obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | word | vicar | nom word «communication transitive»: 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:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:16.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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