The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 11

Kieran starts saying, «Sorry, I need it today.» Deano grumbles that Kieran's «tight» — stingy — and then stops asking.

Who acts: Kieran, Deano, that · What happens: start, say, need, grumble, », stop · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend who only calls when they need something» 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 (Kieran, Deano, that), 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	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 starts	nsubj
2	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 starts	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 need	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 need	punct
6	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	9 need	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Sorry	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 need	nsubj
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 need	obj
11	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	obl:unmarked
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 starts	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 grumbles	punct
14	Deano	Deano	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 grumbles	nsubj
15	grumbles	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 starts	parataxis
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 »	nsubj
17	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 »	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Kieran	case
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 tight	punct
20	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 »	amod
21	»	»	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grumbles	conj
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 stingy	punct
23	stingy	stingy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 »	conj
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 »	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stops	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 stops	advmod
27	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 grumbles	conj
28	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 stops	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 starts	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	start	present	Kieran			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Kieran not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	need in a quote	present	Kieran	money	today	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	grumble speech: other	present	Deano			vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	»		that			tree rules
6	stop	present	Deano not said here		then	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	ask speech: ask	gerund	Deano not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something.lesson:11.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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