Standing by a friend, sentence 21
Standing by a friend means being with them and on their side, not fighting for them.
Who acts: Standing · What happens: stand, mean, be, not fight · 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 (Standing), 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 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 means | csubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 friend | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Standing | obl |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 them | cop |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 side | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 side | nmod:poss |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 them | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fighting | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fighting | advmod |
| 15 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 means | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fighting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | by a friend | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by friend=Location | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Standing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | with friends = friend | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not fight | gerund | for friends = friend | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:21.
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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