Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 7
Kofi in London told his little brother «Mum said you have to give me your chocolate».
Who acts: Kofi, Mum, little brother · What happens: tell, say, have, give · To what, where: little brother, chocolate, Kofi · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 (Kofi, Mum, little 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 | Kofi | Kofi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 London | case |
| 3 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kofi | nmod |
| 4 | told | tell | 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 | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 9 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 give | mark |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | xcomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 chocolate | nmod:poss |
| 17 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- 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 | Kofi in London | Kofi's little brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Kofi's little brother = brother | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | Kofi's little brother = brother not said here | your chocolate | Kofi in London = kofi | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient chocolate=Theme |
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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:7.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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