The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 14
This time Jake says, «Nah, but come round and play here.» Callum comes, and it's actually a laugh.
Who acts: Jake, Callum, cousin · What happens: say, come round, play, come, be · To what, where: laugh · 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 (Jake, Callum, cousin), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | obl |
| 3 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nah | punct |
| 7 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 10 come | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | conj |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 play | cc |
| 13 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 play | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 17 | Callum | Callum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 comes | nsubj |
| 18 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 laugh | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 laugh | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 laugh | nsubj |
| 22 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 laugh | cop |
| 23 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 25 laugh | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 laugh | det |
| 25 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 comes | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jake | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come round in a quote | infinitive | Jake not said here | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | play in a quote | infinitive | Jake not said here | here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | present | Callum | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | cousin | a laugh | actually property | 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:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something.lesson:14.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. 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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