Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 6
At Thanksgiving his cousins from California talk about private schools and skiing, and one says, «You're so lucky, you don't have to do anything.» Josiah feels small and angry.
Who acts: cousins, one, You, Josiah · What happens: talk, say, be, not have, do, feel · To what, where: Thanksgiving, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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 (cousins, one, You, Josiah), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 Thanksgiving | case |
| 2 | Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 talk | obl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cousins | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 talk | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 California | case |
| 6 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cousins | nmod |
| 7 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 schools | case |
| 9 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 schools | amod |
| 10 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 talk | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 skiing | cc |
| 12 | skiing | skiing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 schools | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 says | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 says | nsubj |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 talk | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lucky | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 lucky | punct |
| 19 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 lucky | nsubj |
| 20 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 lucky | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 lucky | advmod |
| 22 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 says | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 have | advmod |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 lucky | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 do | mark |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 have | xcomp |
| 30 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 do | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 talk | punct |
| 33 | Josiah | Josiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 feels | nsubj |
| 34 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 talk | parataxis |
| 35 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 feels | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 angry | cc |
| 37 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 small | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Thanksgiving's cousins from California | Thanksgiving | about private schools and skiing | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about school=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | You | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not have in a quote | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | feel | present | Josiah | small property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:6.
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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