A stranger's story, sentence 21
If someone won't carry a bag themselves, there's a reason.
Who acts: someone, reason · What happens: not carry, be · To what, where: bag
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 (someone, reason), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 carry | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 carry | advmod |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 's | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bag | det |
| 7 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obj |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 carry | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 's | expl |
| 11 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 reason | det |
| 13 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 's | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 's | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not carry a condition, not said to happen | future | someone | a bag | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme bag=Beneficiary themselves=Value | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a reason | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:21.
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): no change. 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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