A new baby, sentence 32
In Honolulu, Kalani asks if she can hold her baby brother.
Who acts: Kalani · What happens: ask, hold · To what, where: Honolulu, baby brother
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 (Kalani), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Honolulu | case |
| 2 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asks | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Honolulu | punct |
| 4 | Kalani | Kalani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asks | nsubj |
| 5 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 hold | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hold | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hold | aux |
| 9 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asks | ccomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | compound |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Kalani | Honolulu | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold a condition, not said to happen | can | Kalani | Kalani's baby brother | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
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:32.
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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