Standing by a friend, sentence 6

Maddie walks over and simply stands next to him, arms folded, saying nothing.

Who acts: Maddie · What happens: walk over, stand, fold, say · To what, where: arms, Maddie, nothing · 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 (Maddie), 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	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 walks	nsubj
2	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 walks	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stands	cc
5	simply	simply	ADV	_	6 stands	advmod
6	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 walks	conj
7	next	next	ADV	_	6 stands	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stands	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 arms	punct
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walks	obl
12	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 arms	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walks	advcl
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 saying	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	walk over	present	Maddie	arms		over property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stand	present	Maddie not said here		Maddie	next, simply property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fold	participle		arms not said here			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Maddie not said here	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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:6.

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 ×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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