A stranger's story, sentence 28

Kai said «I'll get my mum to help you.» «Sure, thanks, love.» Mum helped, and the dog was under a bench.

Who acts: Kai, mum, dog · What happens: say, get, help, be · To what, where: mum, you, bench · 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 (Kai, mum, dog), 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	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 help	mark
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	xcomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 help	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 thanks	punct
15	Sure	sure	INTJ	_	17 thanks	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Sure	punct
17	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 love	punct
19	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thanks	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 thanks	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 thanks	punct
22	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 helped	nsubj
23	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bench	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bench	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dog	det
27	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bench	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bench	cop
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 bench	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bench	det
31	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 helped	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kai				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	future	Kai	my mum			tree rules
3	help in a quote	to-infinitive	my mum not said here		you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
4	help	past	Mum				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the dog			a bench	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:28.

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 ×1, 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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