Standing by a friend, sentence 16
Sam, of all people, lends him his best comic.
Who acts: Sam · What happens: lend · To what, where: best comic, Jake
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 (Sam), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lends | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sam | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sam | punct |
| 7 | lends | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lends | iobj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 comic | nmod:poss |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 comic | amod |
| 11 | comic | comic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lends | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lends | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | present | Sam of all people | Jake's best comic | Jake | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient comic=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:370-standing-by-a-friend.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): R7-rel-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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