Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 18
A bystander is someone who sees something happening to other people.
Who acts: bystander · What happens: be, see, happen · To what, where: someone, something
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 (bystander), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bystander | det |
| 2 | bystander | bystander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 someone | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 someone | cop |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 sees | nsubj |
| 6 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 someone | acl:relcl |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 sees | obj |
| 8 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 something | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 happening | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 someone | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a bystander | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | happen | gerund | to other people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:393-bystanders.lesson:18.
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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