Respect: how it is earned, sentence 17

Jake's uncle, who boxes at a club, said the wisest thing of all: «The best boxers are the ones who never fight outside the ring.

Who acts: uncle, best boxers, ones · What happens: box, say, be, not fight · To what, where: club, wisest thing, ones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» 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 (uncle, best boxers, ones), 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	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jake	case
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boxes	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 boxes	nsubj
6	boxes	box	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 uncle	acl:relcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 club	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 club	det
9	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boxes	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 uncle	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 thing	nmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 ones	punct
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 ones	punct
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boxers	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 boxers	amod
21	boxers	boxer	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ones	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ones	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ones	det
24	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	ccomp
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 fight	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 fight	advmod
27	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ones	acl:relcl
28	outside	outside	ADP	_	30 ring	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ring	det
30	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fight	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	box	present	Jake's uncle		a club		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Jake's uncle	the wisest thing of all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	the best boxers	the ones			tree rules
4	not fight in a quote	present	the ones			outside the ring	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:17.

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 ×1, 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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