A stranger's story, sentence 25

A woman crying at a station told Ruby she'd lost her purse; Ruby gave her lunch money, and the next week the woman was there with the same story.

Who acts: woman, Ruby · What happens: cry, tell, lost, give, be · To what, where: station, Ruby, purse, lunch money, woman · 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, Ruby), 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 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
3	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 woman	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 station	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 station	det
6	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crying	obl
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lost	nsubj
10	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux
11	lost	lost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 purse	nmod:poss
13	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
15	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 money	compound
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 there	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 there	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 week	det
23	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 week	amod
24	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 there	obl:unmarked
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woman	det
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 there	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 there	cop
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 gave	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 story	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 story	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 story	amod
32	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 there	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	a woman not said here			a station			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at station=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	a woman		Ruby				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ruby=Recipient clause=Topic
3	lost	past · perfect	woman	woman's purse					tree rules
4	give	past	Ruby	lunch money	woman				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient money=Theme
5	is	past	the woman				week	with the same story; there property	tree rules

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:25.

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): R8-pos-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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