«It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 35
Letting someone else take your blame is cowardly, and buying it with a promise you break is a second lie.
Who acts: someone, Letting, you, buying, your · What happens: let, take, be, buy, break, blame · To what, where: blame, promise, second lie
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 (someone, Letting, you, buying), 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 | Letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 cowardly | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | else | else | ADV | _ | 2 someone | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Letting | xcomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 blame | nmod:poss |
| 6 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cowardly | cop |
| 8 | cowardly | cowardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lie | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lie | cc |
| 11 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 lie | csubj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 buying | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 promise | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 promise | det |
| 15 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buying | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 break | nsubj |
| 17 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 promise | acl:relcl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lie | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lie | det |
| 20 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 lie | amod |
| 21 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cowardly | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cowardly | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | someone | your blame | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Letting | cowardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | buy | gerund | blame | with a promise | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | break | present | you | a promise not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | buying | a second lie | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | blame | your | nom blame «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:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:35.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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