The older kid's «trade», sentence 37

Nobody can sell real magic; if they could, they would not sell it for a pound.

Who acts: Nobody, prices · What happens: sell, not sell · To what, where: real magic, magic

This is a sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» 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 (Nobody, prices), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 sell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sell	aux
3	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 magic	amod
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sell	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 sell	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 could	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 could	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sell	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 could	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sell	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sell	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 sell	advmod
14	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sell	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sell	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 pound	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pound	det
18	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sell	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	can	Nobody	real magic					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Theme
2	not sell	would	prices = price	magic				for a pound	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme for pound=Asset

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:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:37.

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 ×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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