Manners and kindness, sentence 14

If you need to speak while others are talking and it is not an emergency, you wait for a pause and say excuse me.

Who acts: you, others, speaker · What happens: need, speak, talk, not be, wait, say · To what, where: emergency, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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 (you, others, speaker), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 need	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wait	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 speak	mark
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 need	xcomp
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 talking	mark
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 talking	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 talking	aux
9	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 speak	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 emergency	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 emergency	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 emergency	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 emergency	advmod
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 emergency	det
15	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talking	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 wait	nsubj
18	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 pause	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pause	det
21	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wait	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 say	cc
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wait	conj
24	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 say	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 excuse	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 wait	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	talk	present · progressive	others			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	present	speaker	a emergency		tree rules
5	wait	present	you		for a pause	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	present	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	excuse	infinitive		me		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:14.

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): 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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