When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 23
«I'll be your friend forever if you don't tell — but if you do, I'll never speak to you again,» said Noah's friend, who was bullying a younger kid.
Who acts: friend, you · What happens: be, not tell, not speak, say, bully · To what, where: friend, you, younger kid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When not to keep a friend's secret» 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 (friend, you), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 friend | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 friend | cop |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | ccomp |
| 7 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 12 tell | advmod |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 tell | advmod |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 friend | advcl |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 speak | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 speak | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 speak | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 speak | nsubj |
| 20 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 speak | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 speak | advmod |
| 22 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 friend | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 speak | obl |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 speak | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 » | punct |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 friend | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Noah | case |
| 31 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bullying | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 bullying | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 bullying | aux |
| 35 | bullying | bully | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 friend | acl:relcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 kid | det |
| 37 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 kid | amod |
| 38 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bullying | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | future | Noah's friend = friend | your friend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | forever property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other in a quote | future | Noah's friend = friend | you | again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Noah's friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bully | past · progressive | Noah's friend | a younger kid | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Beneficiary |
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:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret.lesson:23.
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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