Big brothers, sentence 44
Missing a brother who has left home is natural; calls, letters and talking help.
Who acts: brother, Missing, calls · What happens: miss, leave, be, talk, help · To what, where: brother, home
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» 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 (brother, Missing, calls), 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 | Missing | miss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 natural | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Missing | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 left | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 brother | acl:relcl |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 natural | cop |
| 9 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 natural | punct |
| 11 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 help | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 letters | punct |
| 13 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 calls | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 talking | cc |
| 15 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 calls | conj |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 natural | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 natural | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | gerund | a brother | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | leave | present · perfect | a brother | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Missing | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | calls and letters not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | help | present | calls and letters | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:501-big-brothers.lesson:44.
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): no change. 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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