Covering for a friend, sentence 3
Ben said «I didn't see.» The camera showed Jamie — and Ben standing right next to him.
Who acts: Ben, camera · What happens: say, not see, show, stand · To what, where: Jamie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering for a friend» 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 (Ben, camera), 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 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 camera | det |
| 11 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showed | nsubj |
| 12 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 13 | Jamie | Jamie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 showed | obj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ben | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Ben | cc |
| 16 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Jamie | conj |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 Ben | acl |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 19 next | advmod |
| 19 | next | next | ADV | _ | 17 standing | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 next | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ben | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not see in a quote | past · do-support | Ben | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | show | past | the camera | Jamie and Ben | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jamie=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | Ben not said here | next property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:3.
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 ×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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