«It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 12
Josh in Pittsburgh told Mom his brother had called him a bad name, so his brother would lose phone time and Josh would get the TV.
Who acts: Josh, brother · What happens: tell, call, lose, get · To what, where: Mom, bad name, Josh, TV · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» 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 (Josh, brother), 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 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Pittsburgh | case |
| 3 | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Josh | nmod |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Mom | Mom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 told | ccomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 name | amod |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lose | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 lose | advmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lose | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lose | aux |
| 19 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | parataxis |
| 20 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | compound |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lose | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 23 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 get | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 lose | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 TV | det |
| 27 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | 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 | tell speech: assert | past | Josh in Pittsburgh | Mom | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mom=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | call | past · perfect | Josh's brother | a bad name | Josh | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme name=Result | |||
| 3 | lose | would | Josh's brother | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | would | Josh | the TV | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tv=Stimulus |
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:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:12.
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 ×2. 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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