Feuds between families, sentence 19
Connor has never met his cousins, because his dad and his uncle haven't spoken for eight years; he finally meets them at his grandma's funeral, and they get on straight away.
Who acts: Connor, dad, uncle · What happens: not meet, not speak, meet, get on · To what, where: cousins, dad, funeral · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» 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 (Connor, dad, uncle), 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 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 met | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 met | advmod |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cousins | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 met | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spoken | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 spoken | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dad | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoken | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 uncle | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dad | conj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 spoken | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 spoken | advmod |
| 16 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 met | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 18 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spoken | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 meets | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 meets | nsubj |
| 22 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 23 meets | advmod |
| 23 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | parataxis |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 meets | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 funeral | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 grandma | nmod:poss |
| 27 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 funeral | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 grandma | case |
| 29 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meets | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 get | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 get | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 get | nsubj |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 meets | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADV | _ | 33 get | advmod |
| 35 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 36 away | advmod |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 get | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not meet | present · perfect | Connor | Connor's cousins | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | not speak speech: other | present · perfect | Connor's dad and Connor's uncle | year | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet | present | uncle | dad | uncle's grandma's funeral | finally property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||
| 4 | get on | present | dad | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:19.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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