Feuds between families, sentence 9

Two families on Sam's street go to war over a hedge, with solicitor's letters (a solicitor is a kind of lawyer), and the two best mates are banned from playing.

Who acts: Two families, solicitor · What happens: go, be, ban, play, letter · To what, where: hedge, kind, two best mates

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 (Two families, solicitor), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 families	nummod
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 street	case
4	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 street	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Sam	case
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 families	nmod
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 war	case
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 hedge	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hedge	det
12	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 letters	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 letters	case
15	solicitor	solicitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 letters	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 solicitor	case
17	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	obl
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 kind	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 solicitor	det
20	solicitor	solicitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kind	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 kind	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 kind	det
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 letters	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 lawyer	case
25	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kind	nmod
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 kind	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 banned	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 banned	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mates	det
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 mates	nummod
31	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 mates	amod
32	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 banned	nsubj:pass
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 banned	aux:pass
34	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 go	conj
35	from	from	SCONJ	_	36 playing	mark
36	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 banned	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	Two families on Sam's street		a hedge	to war; with solicitor's letters	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location over hedge=Destination
2	is a	present	a solicitor	a kind		of lawyer	tree rules
3	ban	present · passive		the two best mates			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	play	gerund					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	letter		solicitor				nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:9.

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): R7-rel-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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