A stranger's story, sentence 12

A man near the shops in Toronto said to Grace, «Your dad's my best friend, he told me to give you a ride home.» He knew her dad's name — he'd read it on the tag of her school bag.

Who acts: man, dad · What happens: say, be, tell, give, know, read · To what, where: Grace, best friend, man, ride, name, tag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» 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 (man, dad), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 shops	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shops	det
5	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 man	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Toronto	case
7	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 shops	nmod
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Grace	case
10	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
13	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dad	nmod:poss
14	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 friend	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	_	18 friend	cop
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friend	nmod:poss
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 friend	amod
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 friend	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 give	mark
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 told	xcomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ride	det
27	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
28	home	home	ADV	_	27 ride	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 friend	punct
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
31	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 knew	nsubj
32	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 dad	nmod:poss
34	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 name	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 dad	case
36	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knew	obj
37	—	-	PUNCT	_	40 read	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 read	nsubj
39	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 read	aux
40	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 knew	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 read	obj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 tag	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 tag	det
44	tag	tag	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 read	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 bag	case
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 bag	nmod:poss
47	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bag	compound
48	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 tag	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a man near the shops in Toronto		Grace		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grace=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	Your dad	my best friend			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	dad		a man near the shops in Toronto = man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	dad not said here	a ride	Grace		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ride=Theme
5	know	past	dad	Grace's dad's name			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
6	read	would	man	name		the tag of Grace's school bag	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
7	name		Grace's dad				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	tag			Grace's school bag			nom tag «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:12.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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