When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 31

And Emma, whose friend kept taking money from her mum's purse, said: «I won't tell this time, but if it happens again, I'm telling.» The friend stopped.

Who acts: friend, Emma, it · What happens: keep, take, say, not tell, happen, tell · To what, where: money, purse · 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, Emma, it), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 Emma	cc
2	Emma	Emma	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Emma	acl:relcl
7	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taking	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 purse	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 purse	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 mum	case
13	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Emma	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tell	nsubj
19	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 tell	advmod
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tell	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 telling	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 telling	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 happens	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 happens	nsubj
28	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 telling	advcl
29	again	again	ADV	_	28 happens	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 happens	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 telling	nsubj
32	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 telling	aux
33	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 tell	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
36	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 friend	det
37	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stopped	nsubj
38	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	keep	past	friend				tree rules
2	take	gerund	friend not said here	money	Emma's mum's purse		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent money=Theme from purse=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Emma				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not tell speech: assert in a quote	future	Emma			time	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	happen a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	it			again	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	Emma				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	stop	past	the friend				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:31.

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): no change. 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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