A new baby, sentence 39
Parents of a new baby are tired, but they love their older children just as much.
Who acts: Parents · What happens: be, love · To what, where: older children
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 (Parents), 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 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 baby | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 baby | amod |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Parents | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tired | cop |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 love | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 love | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 love | nsubj |
| 11 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tired | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 children | nmod:poss |
| 13 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 children | amod |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 love | obj |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 love | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Parents of a new baby | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | present | parents = parent | parents's older children | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
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:39.
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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