A stranger's story, sentence 9

A stranger at the beach in Durban offered Zara sweets «for a photo»; she said «No thanks» and went to her mum, who told the lifeguards.

Who acts: stranger, mum · What happens: offer, say, go, tell · To what, where: sweets, Zara, thanks, lifeguards · 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 (stranger, mum), 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 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offered	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 beach	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beach	det
5	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stranger	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Durban	case
7	Durban	Durban	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 beach	nmod
8	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 offered	iobj
10	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 offered	obj
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 photo	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 photo	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 photo	det
14	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sweets	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 photo	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 offered	parataxis
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 thanks	punct
20	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 thanks	det
21	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 thanks	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 mum	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mum	nmod:poss
27	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 told	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 told	nsubj
30	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mum	acl:relcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lifeguards	det
32	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 told	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 offered	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	offer	past	a stranger at the beach in Durban	sweets	Zara	for a photo	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent zara=Goal sweet=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	stranger	no thanks			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic
3	go	past	stranger not said here			to stranger's mum	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mum=Initial_Location
4	tell speech: assert	past	stranger's mum	the lifeguards			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lifeguard=Recipient

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:9.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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