When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 28

Ruby's friend in Glasgow had been hurting herself on purpose and begged, «Promise me, Rubes.» Ruby was terrified.

Who acts: friend, Ruby · What happens: hurt, beg, promise, be · To what, where: Glasgow, purpose, friend · 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, Ruby), 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	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ruby	case
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurting	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Glasgow	case
5	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hurting	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 hurting	aux
8	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 hurting	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 purpose	case
11	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurting	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 begged	cc
13	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hurting	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Promise	punct
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 Promise	punct
16	Promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begged	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Promise	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Rubes	punct
19	Rubes	rube	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Promise	vocative
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 Rubes	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 terrified	punct
22	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 terrified	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 terrified	cop
24	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Promise	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hurting	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hurt	past · perfect · progressive	Ruby's friend in Glasgow	Glasgow		purpose		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Patient
2	beg speech: request	past	Ruby's friend in Glasgow not said here					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	infinitive			Ruby's friend in Glasgow = friend		Rubes vocative	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is	past	Ruby				terrified property	tree rules

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:28.

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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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