The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 43

«Butt» is South Wales for mate, «fit» means outfit, «no cap» means for real, «braw» is Scots for lovely, «wee yin» means little one, «howay» is Geordie for come on, «skint» means having no money, and in South Africa «now now» means soon.

Who acts: «, », cap, » South Wales, » Scots · What happens: be, fit, mean, have · To what, where: » South Wales, outfit, » Scots, little one, » Geordie, money

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» 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 («, », cap, » South Wales), 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	«	«	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 »	compound
2	Butt	butt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 »	compound
3	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Wales	compound
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Wales	cop
5	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wales	compound
6	Wales	wale	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 Scots	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 mate	case
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Wales	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fit	punct
10	«	«	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 fit	nsubj
11	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Wales	conj
12	»	»	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 means	nsubj
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fit	ccomp
14	outfit	outfit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cap	punct
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 cap	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 cap	det
18	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 means	nsubj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 cap	punct
20	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 means	parataxis
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 real	case
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 means	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Scots	punct
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 braw	punct
25	braw	braw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 »	amod
26	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Scots	compound
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 Scots	cop
28	Scots	Scot	PROPN	Number=Plur	36 means	nsubj
29	for	for	ADP	_	34 yin	case
30	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 yin	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wee	punct
32	«	«	CCONJ	_	33 wee	cc
33	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lovely	conj
34	yin	yin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Scots	nmod
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 Scots	punct
36	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 one	amod
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 means	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Geordie	punct
40	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 howay	punct
41	howay	howay	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 »	compound
42	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 Geordie	compound
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 Geordie	cop
44	Geordie	geordie	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 one	conj
45	for	for	ADP	_	46 come	mark
46	come	come	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 Geordie	nmod
47	on	on	ADV	_	44 Geordie	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 skint	punct
49	«	«	PUNCT	_	50 skint	punct
50	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 one	acl:relcl
51	»	»	PUNCT	_	50 skint	punct
52	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 skint	conj
53	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 means	xcomp
54	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	55 money	det
55	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 having	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 Africa	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 Africa	cc
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 Africa	case
59	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Africa	compound
60	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 means	obl
61	«	«	PUNCT	_	60 Africa	punct
62	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	65 means	advmod
63	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	65 means	advmod
64	»	»	PUNCT	_	65 means	punct
65	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 means	parataxis
66	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	65 means	advmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Wales	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		» South Wales		for mate	tree rules
2	fit in a quote	past	«				tree rules
3	mean	present	»	outfit			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outfit=Topic
4	mean	present	no cap			for real	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for real=Attribute
5	is a	present	» South Wales	» Scots		for lovely yin	tree rules
6	mean	present	» Scots	little one and » Geordie			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
7	is a	present	» Scots not said here	» Geordie		come nmod	tree rules
8	mean	present	» Scots not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	have not said to happen	gerund	» Scots not said here	no money			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
10	mean	present			now; now	in South Africa; soon property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in africa=Attribute

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.

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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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-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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