A new baby, sentence 7
In Kent, when Mum tells Marnie a baby is coming, Marnie asks, «Will you still love me?» Mum says, «More than ever.» Love isn't like cake: it doesn't run out when it's shared.
Who acts: Mum, baby, Marnie, you, Love · What happens: tell, come, ask, love, say, not be · To what, where: Marnie, Kent, More, Love · 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 (Mum, baby, Marnie, you), 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 Kent | case |
| 2 | Kent | Kent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asks | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kent | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 tells | mark |
| 5 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tells | nsubj |
| 6 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 asks | advcl |
| 7 | Marnie | Marnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tells | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 baby | det |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 coming | aux |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 tells | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Marnie | punct |
| 13 | Marnie | Marnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asks | nsubj |
| 14 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 coming | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 love | punct |
| 17 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 love | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 love | nsubj |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 love | advmod |
| 20 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asks | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 love | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 asks | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 says | punct |
| 24 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 says | nsubj |
| 25 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 asks | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 More | punct |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 More | punct |
| 28 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 says | obj |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 ever | case |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 More | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asks | punct |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 says | punct |
| 33 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cake | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 cake | cop |
| 35 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 cake | advmod |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 cake | case |
| 37 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asks | parataxis |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 cake | punct |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 run | nsubj |
| 40 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 run | aux |
| 41 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 run | advmod |
| 42 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 cake | parataxis |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 run | compound:prt |
| 44 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 47 shared | mark |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 shared | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 shared | aux:pass |
| 47 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 run | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Mum | Marnie | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent marnie=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | a baby | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | Marnie | Kent | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | love in a quote | future | you | Marnie | still | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | Mum | More | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 6 | not is | present | Love | like cake | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not run out | present · do-support | Love | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | share | present · passive | Love | tree rules |
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:7.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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