The secret that got told, sentence 7
Sam forgives him, but doesn't tell him anything private for a long time.
Who acts: Sam · What happens: forgive, not tell · To what, where: Jake, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The secret that got told» 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 (Sam), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 forgives | nsubj |
| 2 | forgives | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 forgives | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 tell | cc |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 tell | advmod |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 forgives | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 tell | obj |
| 11 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 anything | amod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forgives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | present | Sam | Jake | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | present · do-support | Sam not said here | anything | Jake | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Topic |
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:476-the-secret-that-got-told.lesson:7.
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): no change. 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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