Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 1
Sam stood at the back with his stomach in knots, not knowing what to do.
Who acts: Sam · What happens: stand, not know, do · To what, where: back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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), 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 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 back | det |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 stomach | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 knots | case |
| 10 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knowing | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 knowing | advmod |
| 13 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stood | advcl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 knowing | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Sam | the back | with Sam's stomach; in knots | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location | |||
| 2 | not know | gerund | Sam not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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:393-bystanders.lesson:1.
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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