When the story falls apart, sentence 11
Oisin in Cork said his dog had died to get more time; the teacher sent a sympathy card home, and Mum opened it with the dog asleep on her feet.
Who acts: Oisin, dog, teacher, Mum · What happens: say, die, get, send, open · To what, where: sympathy card, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (Oisin, dog, teacher, Mum), 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 | Oisin | Oisin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Cork | case |
| 3 | Cork | Cork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Oisin | nmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dog | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 died | aux |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 died | advcl |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 teacher | det |
| 15 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 card | det |
| 18 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 card | compound |
| 19 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 sent | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 opened | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 opened | cc |
| 23 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 opened | nsubj |
| 24 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 opened | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 dog | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dog | det |
| 28 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 opened | obl |
| 29 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dog | amod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 feet | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 feet | nmod:poss |
| 32 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 asleep | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Oisin in Cork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | Oisin's dog | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Oisin's dog not said here | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | send | past | the teacher | a sympathy card | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | |||
| 5 | open | past | Mum | teacher | with the dog | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with dog=Instrument |
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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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. 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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