Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did, sentence 14

Kieran and Jake have been tried by everyone, teachers and mums: «He's just a wasteman,» says Kieran (London slang for a useless person).

Who acts: everyone, teacher, Kieran · What happens: try, be, say · To what, where: Kieran, wasteman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did» 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 (everyone, teacher, Kieran), 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	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tried	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Jake	cc
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kieran	conj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tried	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 tried	aux:pass
6	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 tried	obl:agent
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 teachers	punct
10	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 everyone	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mums	cc
12	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 everyone	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
15	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wasteman	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wasteman	cop
17	just	just	ADV	_	19 wasteman	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wasteman	det
19	wasteman	wasteman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 says	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wasteman	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tried	parataxis
23	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 says	nsubj
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 slang	punct
25	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 slang	compound
26	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Kieran	appos
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 person	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 person	det
29	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 person	amod
30	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slang	nmod
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 slang	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tried	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	try	present · perfect · passive	everyone	Kieran and Jake	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
2	is a in a quote	present	teacher	a wasteman	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	Kieran		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.lesson:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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