Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 10
Dad says, «Sorry bud, can't swing new ones till payday» («can't swing» means can't afford).
Who acts: Dad · What happens: say, not swing, mean, not afford · To what, where: new ones · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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 (Dad), 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 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bud | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 bud | punct |
| 5 | Sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bud | amod |
| 6 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swing | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swing | punct |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 swing | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 swing | advmod |
| 10 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 says | ccomp |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 swing | obj |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 payday | case |
| 14 | payday | payday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swing | obl |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 swing | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 swing | punct |
| 18 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 swing | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 swing | advmod |
| 20 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 means | nsubj |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 swing | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | parataxis |
| 23 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 afford | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 afford | advmod |
| 25 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 means | conj |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not swing in a quote | can | new ones | till payday | Sorry bud vocative | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 3 | not swing in a quote | can | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not afford | can | 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:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:10.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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