The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 2

When Mr Patel came round, Owen said «Weren't us, we were inside.» His football was lying among the broken glass — with his name written on it in marker.

Who acts: Mr, Owen, we, football · What happens: come round, say, be, lie, write, name · To what, where: us, broken glass, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 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 (Mr, Owen, we, football), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	Patel	Patel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mr	flat
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
7	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 us	punct
10	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 us	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 Were	advmod
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 us	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 inside	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 inside	cop
16	inside	inside	ADV	_	12 us	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
19	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 football	nmod:poss
20	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lying	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lying	aux
22	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
23	among	among	ADP	_	26 glass	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 glass	det
25	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 glass	amod
26	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lying	obl
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	30 name	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 name	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 name	nmod:poss
30	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lying	obl
31	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 name	acl
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 written	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 marker	case
35	marker	marker	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 written	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come round	past	Mr			round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Owen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	past		us			tree rules
4	is in a quote	past	we			inside property	tree rules
5	lie	past · progressive	Owen's football		the broken glass	with football's name	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among glass=Location
6	write	participle		football's name not said here	name	in marker	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination
7	name		football				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.lesson:2.

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, R8-pos-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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