A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home, sentence 13
In Melbourne people keep asking Jethro, «What's wrong with your brother?» «Nothing's wrong, he just uses wheels,» says Jethro, and walks on.
Who acts: people, Jethro · What happens: keep, ask, be, use, say, walk on · To what, where: Melbourne, Jethro, Nothing, wheels · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» 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 (people, Jethro), 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 Melbourne | case |
| 2 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obl |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 says | advcl |
| 5 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 6 | Jethro | Jethro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrong | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrong | punct |
| 9 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 wrong | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wrong | cop |
| 11 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keep | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 brother | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrong | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 says | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 wrong | punct |
| 18 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | PronType=Neg | 20 wrong | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Nothing | cop |
| 20 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 says | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 uses | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 uses | nsubj |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 uses | advmod |
| 24 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wrong | parataxis |
| 25 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 uses | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wrong | punct |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 says | punct |
| 28 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | Jethro | Jethro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 says | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 walks | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 walks | cc |
| 32 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 says | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADV | _ | 32 walks | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | people | Melbourne | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | people not said here | Jethro | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jethro=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | with your brother; wrong property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Nothing | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | use in a quote | present | Jethro | wheels | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | Jethro | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | walk on | present | Jethro not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:13.
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 ×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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