A stranger's story, sentence 19

At a bus stop in Glasgow a man said «Here, wee man, a fiver if you carry this bag to that car» — «wee» means small in Scotland.

Who acts: man, you, wee · What happens: say, carry, mean · To what, where: bus stop, bag, car · 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, you, wee), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 stop	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stop	det
3	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	compound
4	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Glasgow	case
6	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
11	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 fiver	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fiver	punct
13	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fiver	vocative
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fiver	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fiver	det
17	fiver	fiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 carry	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 carry	nsubj
20	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fiver	advcl
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 bag	det
22	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carry	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 car	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 car	det
25	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carry	obl
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 wee	punct
29	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 means	nsubj
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 wee	punct
31	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
32	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 means	xcomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 Scotland	case
34	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 small	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a man		a bus stop in Glasgow		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	carry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	this bag	that car		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to car=Destination
3	mean	present	wee			small property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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:19.

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 ×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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