The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 27
«A fair-weather friend is here for the sunshine and gone when it rains, sugar,» Grandma says.
Who acts: weather friend, it, Grandma · What happens: be, rain, say · 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 (weather friend, it, Grandma), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 here | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 friend | det |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 weather | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 friend | compound |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 here | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 here | cop |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 says | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sunshine | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sunshine | det |
| 11 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 here | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gone | cc |
| 13 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 here | conj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 rains | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rains | nsubj |
| 16 | rains | rain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sugar | punct |
| 18 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rains | vocative |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
| 21 | Grandma | Grandma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 says | nsubj |
| 22 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | a weather friend | for the sunshine; here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | a weather friend not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | rain in a quote | present | it | sugar vocative | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Grandma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:27.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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