A stranger's story, sentence 14

In Dublin a woman told Oisin she was a «talent scout» and he could be on telly: «Just give me your address and your mam's number — don't tell her, it's a surprise.» Oisin told his mam straight away.

Who acts: woman, Oisin, shopkeeper, your · What happens: tell, be, give, not tell, address · To what, where: Oisin, Dublin, talent scout, telly, address, Grace · 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 (woman, Oisin, shopkeeper, your), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Dublin	case
2	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Oisin	Oisin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 scout	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 scout	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 scout	det
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 scout	punct
11	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scout	compound
12	scout	scout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	ccomp
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 scout	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 telly	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 telly	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 telly	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 telly	cop
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 telly	case
19	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scout	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
22	Just	just	ADV	_	23 give	advmod
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 telly	parataxis
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 address	nmod:poss
26	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 number	cc
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mam	nmod:poss
29	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 number	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 mam	case
31	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 address	conj
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
33	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	aux
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 tell	advmod
35	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 give	parataxis
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 tell	iobj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 surprise	punct
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 surprise	nsubj
39	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 surprise	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 surprise	det
41	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scout	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 scout	punct
43	»	»	PUNCT	_	45 told	punct
44	Oisin	Oisin	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 told	nsubj
45	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 mam	nmod:poss
47	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 told	iobj
48	straight	straight	ADV	_	49 away	advmod
49	away	away	ADV	_	45 told	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a woman		Oisin	Dublin		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent oisin=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	past	woman	a talent scout and telly and a surprise				tree rules
3	is	could	Oisin			telly		tree rules
4	give in a quote	infinitive		your address and your mam's number	Grace			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient address=Theme
5	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive · do-support			woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	is a in a quote	present	shopkeeper	a surprise				tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	past	Oisin		Oisin's mam		away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mam=Recipient
8	address in a quote		your					nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:14.

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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/14/