When the police come, sentence 14
Sam saw a fight in the street, and an officer asked him what he had seen.
Who acts: Sam, officer · What happens: see, ask · To what, where: fight, street, Sam · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the police come» 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, officer), 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 | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fight | det |
| 4 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 street | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 street | det |
| 7 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 officer | det |
| 11 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 seen | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Sam | a fight | the street | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fight=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a officer | Sam | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Sam | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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:384-when-the-police-come.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): R7-rel-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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