Standing by a friend, sentence 14
And when Jake's own friends start calling Sam names, Jake, surprisingly, tells them to stop.
Who acts: own friends, Jake · What happens: start, call, tell, stop · To what, where: Sam names, friends · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» 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 (own friends, Jake), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 start | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 start | advmod |
| 3 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Jake | case |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friends | amod |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 start | nsubj |
| 7 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tells | advcl |
| 8 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 start | xcomp |
| 9 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 names | compound |
| 10 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 calling | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Jake | punct |
| 12 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tells | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Jake | punct |
| 14 | surprisingly | surprisingly | ADV | _ | 16 tells | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tells | punct |
| 16 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tells | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 stop | mark |
| 19 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tells | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Jake's own friends | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | call | gerund | Jake's own friends not said here | Sam names | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | Jake | friends = friend | surprisingly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jake not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:14.
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 ×6, R6-punct-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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