Every family is different, sentence 14
In Birmingham, Ifeoma, the oldest of five, gets two little brothers dressed, finds a lost shoe and still beats the bell: «Proper bostin' morning, miss, no one cried.» «Bostin'» is Black Country for brilliant.
Who acts: Ifeoma, two little brothers, one, Bostin · What happens: get, dress, find, lose, beat, cry · To what, where: two little brothers, Birmingham, lost shoe, bell, Black Country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Every family is different» 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 (Ifeoma, two little brothers, one, Bostin), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Birmingham | case |
| 2 | Birmingham | Birmingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gets | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ifeoma | punct |
| 4 | Ifeoma | Ifeoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gets | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ifeoma | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oldest | det |
| 7 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 Ifeoma | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 five | case |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 oldest | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ifeoma | punct |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 brothers | nummod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brothers | amod |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gets | obj |
| 15 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gets | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 finds | punct |
| 17 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gets | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shoe | det |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 shoe | amod |
| 20 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finds | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 beats | cc |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 beats | advmod |
| 23 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 finds | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bell | det |
| 25 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beats | obj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 morning | punct |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 morning | punct |
| 28 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bostin | amod |
| 29 | bostin | bostin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 morning | compound |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 bostin | punct |
| 31 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gets | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 miss | punct |
| 33 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 morning | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 cried | punct |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 one | det |
| 36 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cried | nsubj |
| 37 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gets | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 » | punct |
| 39 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 gets | punct |
| 40 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 41 Bostin | punct |
| 41 | Bostin | Bostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Country | nsubj |
| 42 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 41 Bostin | case |
| 43 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 41 Bostin | punct |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 Country | cop |
| 45 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Country | amod |
| 46 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 cried | parataxis |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 brilliant | case |
| 48 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Country | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Ifeoma | two little brothers | Birmingham | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | two little brothers not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | present | Ifeoma not said here | a lost shoe | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | beat | present | Ifeoma not said here | the bell | still | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | |||
| 6 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | no one | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | Bostin | Black Country | for brilliant | 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:486-every-family-is-different.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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