Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 19

Refusing to join a fight is not betrayal; a true friend does not ask you to get hurt or hurt others.

Who acts: Refusing, true friend · What happens: refuse, not join, not be, not ask, get, hurt · To what, where: fight, betrayal, you, others

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 (Refusing, true friend), 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	Refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 betrayal	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 join	mark
3	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Refusing	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fight	det
5	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 join	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 betrayal	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 betrayal	advmod
8	betrayal	betrayal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Refusing	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friend	amod
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ask	nsubj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ask	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 ask	advmod
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 betrayal	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 ask	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ask	xcomp
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 get	xcomp
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 hurt	cc
21	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hurt	conj
22	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hurt	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 betrayal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	refuse	gerund				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not join	to-infinitive		a fight		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Patient
3	not is a	present	Refusing	betrayal		tree rules
4	not ask speech: ask	present · do-support	a true friend		you	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	a true friend not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	hurt	participle	a true friend not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	hurt	infinitive	a true friend not said here	others		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Patient

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:19.

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, 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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