The friend who only calls when they need something, sentence 47
Saying no to a one-way friend can feel lonely at first, but it leaves room for friends who give back.
Who acts: Saying, kindness, friends · What happens: say, feel, leave, give back · To what, where: no, way friend, room · 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 (Saying, kindness, friends), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 feel | csubj |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 1 Saying | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 friend | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 way | nummod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | compound |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Saying | obl |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | aux |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feel | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 first | case |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 lonely | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leaves | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 leaves | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leaves | nsubj |
| 17 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | conj |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leaves | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 friends | case |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 room | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 give | nsubj |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 friends | acl:relcl |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 give | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | no | a way friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to friend=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | feel | can | Saying | lonely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | leave | present | kindness | room | for friends | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent room=Theme for friend=Recipient | |||
| 4 | give back | present | friends | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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:47.
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 ×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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