Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 21
Mrs Lopez brings Mia's family tamales (steamed corn parcels), wrapped in a tea towel, every Christmas Eve: «Eat them hot, mija» (Spanish for «my girl»).
Who acts: Mrs · What happens: bring, steam, wrap, eat · To what, where: family tamales, tea towel, tamales · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 (Mrs), 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 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | nsubj |
| 2 | Lopez | Lopez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs | flat |
| 3 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tamales | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Mia | case |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tamales | compound |
| 7 | tamales | tamale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brings | obj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 parcels | punct |
| 9 | steamed | steam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 parcels | amod |
| 10 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 parcels | compound |
| 11 | parcels | parcel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tamales | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 parcels | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wrapped | punct |
| 14 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tamales | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 towel | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 towel | det |
| 17 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 towel | compound |
| 18 | towel | towel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wrapped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Eve | punct |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 Eve | det |
| 21 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Eve | compound |
| 22 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Eat | punct |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 Eat | punct |
| 25 | Eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 brings | parataxis |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 Eat | obj |
| 27 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Eat | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mija | punct |
| 29 | mija | mija | X | _ | 25 Eat | obj |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 Eat | punct |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 Spanish | punct |
| 32 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Eat | parataxis |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 girl | case |
| 34 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 36 girl | punct |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 girl | nmod:poss |
| 36 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Spanish | obl |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 girl | punct |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 Spanish | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Mrs | Mia's family tamales | every Christmas Eve obl:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 2 | steam | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | wrap | participle | Mia's family tamales not said here | a tea towel | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in towel=Destination | ||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | infinitive | tamales = tamale | hot property | tree rules |
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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:21.
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 ×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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