Covering for a friend, sentence 5
Ben said later he wished he'd just said «Ask Jamie, sir.»
Who acts: Ben · What happens: say, wish, ask · 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), 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 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 said | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wished | nsubj |
| 5 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | aux |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wished | ccomp |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ask | punct |
| 11 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 12 | Jamie | Jamie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ask | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sir | punct |
| 14 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Ask | vocative |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 16 | » | » | 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 | late property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | Ben | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Ben | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | Jamie | sir vocative | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jamie=Recipient |
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:5.
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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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