Standing by a friend, sentence 28
Telling your own friends to stop being unkind can be one of the hardest kinds of courage.
Who acts: Telling · What happens: tell, stop, be · To what, where: own friends, one · 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 (Telling), 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 one | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | amod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Telling | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stop | mark |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Telling | xcomp |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 unkind | cop |
| 8 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stop | xcomp |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 one | cop |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kinds | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kinds | det |
| 14 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 kinds | amod |
| 15 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 courage | case |
| 17 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kinds | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | your own friends | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | is | gerund | unkind property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | can | Telling | one | of the hardest kinds of courage | tree rules |
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:28.
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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