Standing by a friend, sentence 9
Sam's knees were knocking, but it was the most powerful silence he'd ever heard.
Who acts: knees, fight, Sam · What happens: knock, be, heard · To what, where: powerful silence
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 (knees, fight, 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 | 3 knees | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 knocking | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knocking | aux |
| 5 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 silence | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 silence | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 silence | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 silence | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 silence | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 powerful | advmod |
| 12 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 silence | amod |
| 13 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knocking | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 heard | advmod |
| 17 | heard | heard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 silence | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knocking | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past · progressive | Sam's knees | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | fight | the powerful silence | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | heard | would | Sam | the powerful silence not said here | ever | 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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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