Too many details, too few, sentence 9
Noah let it go; weeks later his mate told him his parents were splitting up.
Who acts: Noah, mate, parents · What happens: let, go, tell, split up · To what, where: mate, Noah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» 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 (Noah, mate, parents), 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 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 splitting | punct |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 later | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 told | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mate | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parents | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 splitting | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 splitting | aux |
| 15 | splitting | split | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 told | ccomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 splitting | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Noah | mate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | mate not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Noah's mate | Noah | late property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | split up | past · progressive | Noah's parents | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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:450-too-many-details-too-few.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 ×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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