Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 16

And Jake, who used to start fights, stepped between two Year 4s and said «oi, pack it in, not worth it» — and because it was Jake, they did.

Who acts: Jake, head · What happens: use, start, step, say, pack in, be · To what, where: fights, two Year 4s, head, Jake · 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 (Jake, head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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