Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 26

Silence keeps a feud alive; it is never too late to make up, and sad times sometimes end old feuds.

Who acts: Silence, sad times · What happens: keep, not be, make up, end · To what, where: feud, old feuds

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 (Silence, sad times), 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	Silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 feud	det
4	feud	feud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 late	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 late	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 late	cop
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 late	advmod
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 late	advmod
11	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 late	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 make	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 end	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 end	cc
17	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 times	amod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 end	nsubj
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 end	advmod
20	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 feuds	amod
22	feuds	feud	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 end	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 keeps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Silence	a feud	alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feud=Theme
2	not is	present	Silence		late property	tree rules
3	make up	to-infinitive	Silence not said here			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	end	present	sad times	old feuds	sometimes property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality feud=Eventuality

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:26.

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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