Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 39

When a promise gives everyone everything with nothing taken away, it is fair to ask how it would be paid for; honest people disagree about the answer.

Who acts: promise, honest people · What happens: give, take away, be, ask, pay, disagree · To what, where: everything, everyone, computer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» 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 (promise, honest people), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 gives	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 promise	det
3	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fair	advcl
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 gives	iobj
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 gives	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 nothing	case
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 gives	obl
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 nothing	acl
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 taken	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fair	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fair	expl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fair	cop
14	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 ask	mark
16	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fair	csubj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 paid	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 paid	nsubj:pass
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 paid	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 paid	aux:pass
21	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ask	ccomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	21 paid	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 disagree	punct
24	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 disagree	nsubj
26	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fair	parataxis
27	about	about	ADP	_	29 answer	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 answer	det
29	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 disagree	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fair	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	a promise	everything	everyone	with nothing	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient everything=Theme
2	take away	participle				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present				fair property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	pay	would · passive		computer			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
6	disagree	present	honest people			about the answer	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about answer=Topic

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:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:39.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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