Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 3

Then he got told Sam was «not loyal» because Sam wouldn't come to the big fight, and he found himself saying it too, even though Sam had been his mate since nursery.

Who acts: Sam, toddler · What happens: tell, not be, not come, find, say, be · To what, where: toddler, big fight, fight, mate · 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 (Sam, toddler), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 loyal	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 loyal	cop
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 loyal	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 loyal	advmod
9	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 loyal	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
12	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 come	advmod
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 fight	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fight	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fight	amod
19	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 found	obj
25	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 found	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 saying	obj
27	too	too	ADV	_	25 saying	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 mate	punct
29	even	even	ADV	_	35 mate	advmod
30	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 mate	mark
31	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 mate	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 mate	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 mate	cop
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mate	nmod:poss
35	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saying	advcl
36	since	since	ADP	_	37 nursery	case
37	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 mate	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		toddler		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	not is in a quote	past	Sam				loyal property	tree rules
3	not come	would	Sam		the big fight			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fight=Initial_Location
4	find	past	toddler	toddler				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	toddler not said here	fight				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
6	is a	past · perfect	Sam	toddler's mate		since nursery		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:383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.lesson:3.

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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