A new baby, sentence 21
«I'm mad scared,» he tells his friend (New York «mad» = very).
Who acts: brother · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby» 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), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 scared | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | cop |
| 4 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scared | amod |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tells | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 tells | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tells | nsubj |
| 9 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tells | obj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 New | punct |
| 13 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 friend | appos |
| 14 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 New | flat |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 mad | punct |
| 16 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 friend | appos |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 mad | punct |
| 18 | = | = | SYM | _ | 9 tells | parataxis |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 = | advmod |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 = | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | brother | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | brother | brother's friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
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:504-a-new-baby.lesson:21.
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. 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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