Growing apart, sentence 39
Begging a drifting friend or sulking rarely helps; finding people who share what you love now usually does.
Who acts: Begging, people, you, finding · What happens: beg, drift, sulk, help, find, share · To what, where: drifting friend, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» 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 (Begging, people, you, finding), 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 | Begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 helps | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 3 | drifting | drift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 friend | amod |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Begging | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 sulking | cc |
| 6 | sulking | sulk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Begging | conj |
| 7 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 8 helps | advmod |
| 8 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 finding | punct |
| 10 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 does | csubj |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 finding | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 share | nsubj |
| 13 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 people | acl:relcl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 share | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 love | nsubj |
| 16 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 love | advmod |
| 18 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 19 does | advmod |
| 19 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 helps | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | gerund | a drifting friend | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | drift | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sulk | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | help | present | Begging | rarely property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | find | gerund | people | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | |||||
| 6 | share | present | people | people | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | love | present | you | now | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | do | present | finding | usually property | vn act-114-1 «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:464-growing-apart.lesson:39.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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