Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 14

A group that makes you smash windows and calls your mates traitors isn't loyal to you — it just uses you.» Real loyalty means sticking by people when they need you and being honest with them, not doing harm because a group demands it.

Who acts: group, you, mate, Real loyalty, people · What happens: make, smash, call, not be, use, mean · To what, where: windows, mates, you, harm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Street gangs and loyalty» 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 (group, you, mate, Real loyalty), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 group	det
2	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loyal	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 group	acl:relcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 smash	nsubj
6	smash	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	xcomp
7	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smash	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 calls	cc
9	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 makes	conj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mates	nmod:poss
11	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 calls	obj
12	traitors	traitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 calls	xcomp
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 loyal	cop
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 loyal	advmod
15	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 loyal	obl
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 uses	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 uses	nsubj
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 uses	advmod
21	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 loyal	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 uses	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 loyal	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 loyal	punct
25	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 loyalty	amod
26	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 means	nsubj
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 loyal	parataxis
28	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 means	ccomp
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 people	case
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sticking	obl
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 need	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 need	nsubj
33	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 sticking	advcl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 need	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 honest	cc
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 honest	cop
37	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sticking	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 honest	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 doing	punct
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 doing	advmod
42	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 sticking	conj
43	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 doing	obj
44	because	because	SCONJ	_	47 demands	mark
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 group	det
46	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 demands	nsubj
47	demands	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 doing	advcl
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 demands	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 loyal	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	a group				tree rules
2	smash	infinitive	you	windows			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme
3	call	present	a group not said here	your mates			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mate=Recipient
4	not is	present	a group		you	loyal property	tree rules
5	use	present	mate	you			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
6	mean in a quote	present	Real loyalty				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	stick in a quote	gerund				by people	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by people=Destination
8	need in a quote	present	people	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
9	is in a quote	gerund				with people; honest property	tree rules
10	not do in a quote	gerund		harm			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
11	demand speech: request in a quote	present	a group	harm			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Precondition

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:383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.lesson:14.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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