«It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 18
Ruby in Edinburgh cried until her big brother Euan agreed to take the blame for a cup, and promised to do his chores for a week.
Who acts: Ruby, big brother · What happens: cry, agree, take, promise, do · To what, where: blame, chores
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 (Ruby, big 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 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Edinburgh | case |
| 3 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ruby | nmod |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 agreed | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 agreed | nsubj |
| 9 | Euan | Euan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brother | appos |
| 10 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 agreed | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blame | det |
| 14 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 cup | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cup | det |
| 17 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 promised | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 promised | cc |
| 20 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 promised | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 chores | nmod:poss |
| 24 | chores | chore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 do | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 week | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 week | det |
| 27 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Ruby in Edinburgh | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | Ruby's big brother | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ruby's big brother not said here | the blame | for a cup | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blame=Theme for cup=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | Ruby in Edinburgh not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ruby in Edinburgh not said here | Euan's chores | week | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality |
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: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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