Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 19

He means he waved at her.» Aiden kept it to himself, not wanting to embarrass him.

Who acts: Cousin, Aiden · What happens: mean, wave, keep, not want, embarrass · To what, where: girlfriend, Cousin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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 (Cousin, Aiden), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waved	nsubj
4	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waved	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct
9	Aiden	Aiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 kept	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanting	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 wanting	advmod
16	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 kept	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 embarrass	mark
18	embarrass	embarrass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wanting	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 embarrass	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Cousin				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wave	past	Cousin			at aunt	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location
3	keep in a quote	past	Aiden	girlfriend	Cousin		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not want in a quote	gerund	Aiden not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	embarrass not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Aiden not said here	Cousin			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:19.

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. 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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