The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 12

Rosie's dad in Bristol says, «We can't afford it, my lover» («my lover» is a friendly West Country way of saying dear), and Rosie yells, «We can NEVER afford anything!» and slams the door.

Who acts: dad, We, lover, friendly Country way, Rosie · What happens: say, not afford, be, yell, slam · To what, where: bank, friendly Country way, dear, anything, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» 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, We, lover, friendly Country way), 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	Rosie	Rosie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Rosie	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Bristol	case
5	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 afford	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 afford	punct
9	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 afford	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 afford	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 afford	advmod
12	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 afford	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lover	punct
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lover	nmod:poss
16	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 afford	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 afford	punct
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 lover	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lover	nmod:poss
21	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 way	nsubj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 lover	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 way	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 way	det
25	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 way	amod
26	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Country	compound
27	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 way	compound
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	parataxis
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 saying	mark
30	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 way	acl
31	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 saying	obj
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 yells	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 yells	cc
35	Rosie	Rosie	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 yells	nsubj
36	yells	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 afford	punct
38	«	«	SCONJ	_	42 afford	mark
39	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 afford	nsubj
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 afford	aux
41	NEVER	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 afford	advmod
42	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 yells	ccomp
43	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	42 afford	obj
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	42 afford	punct
45	»	»	PUNCT	_	42 afford	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 slams	cc
47	slams	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 yells	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 door	det
49	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 slams	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Rosie's dad in Bristol		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not afford in a quote	can	We	bank	tree rules
3	is a	present	my lover	a friendly Country way	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	a friendly Country way not said here	dear	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dear=Topic
5	yell speech: express	present	Rosie		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not afford in a quote	can	We	anything	tree rules
7	slam	present	Rosie not said here	the door	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.lesson:12.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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