Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 5

Older Station Road boys tried to recruit Jake because he was «a good fighter», calling him «little bro» and buying him chips.

Who acts: Road boys, Jake · What happens: try, recruit, be, call, buy · To what, where: Jake, good fighter, chips · 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 (Road boys, Jake), 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	Older	Older	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Station	compound
2	Station	Station	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Road	compound
3	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boys	compound
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tried	nsubj
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 recruit	mark
7	recruit	recruit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 recruit	obj
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 fighter	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fighter	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fighter	cop
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 fighter	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fighter	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fighter	amod
15	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 recruit	advcl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 fighter	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 calling	punct
18	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tried	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 calling	obj
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 bro	punct
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bro	amod
22	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 calling	xcomp
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 bro	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 buying	cc
25	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 calling	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 buying	iobj
27	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 buying	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	try	past	Road boys			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	recruit not said to happen	to-infinitive	Road boys not said here	Jake		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jake=Theme
3	is a in a quote	past	Jake	a good fighter		tree rules
4	call speech: assert	gerund	Road boys not said here		Jake	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	buy	gerund	Road boys not said here	chips	Jake	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary chip=Theme

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:5.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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