Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 36
«Howay» is Geordie for come on; «drip» means stylish clothes; «cariad» is Welsh for darling; «Mashallah» is said to admire something good; Hogmanay is Scottish New Year; a «barbie» is an Aussie barbecue.
Who acts: Howay, cariad », Hogmanay, barbie » · What happens: be, mean, say, admire · To what, where: Geordie, stylish clothes, Mashallah, something, Scottish New Year, Aussie barbecue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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 (Howay, cariad », Hogmanay, barbie »), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Howay | punct |
| 2 | Howay | Howay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Geordie | nsubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Howay | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Geordie | cop |
| 5 | Geordie | geordie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | parataxis |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Geordie | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 drip | case |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 drip | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 drip | punct |
| 11 | drip | drip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nmod |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 drip | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | stylish | stylish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 clothes | amod |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 means | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 Welsh | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 cariad | punct |
| 18 | cariad | cariad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 » | compound |
| 19 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Welsh | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Welsh | cop |
| 21 | Welsh | welsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 means | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 darling | case |
| 23 | darling | darling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Welsh | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 Mashallah | punct |
| 26 | Mashallah | Mashallah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 said | nsubj |
| 27 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Mashallah | flat |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 said | aux:pass |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Welsh | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 admire | mark |
| 31 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | xcomp |
| 32 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 admire | obj |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 something | amod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 admire | punct |
| 35 | Hogmanay | hogmanay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Year | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 Year | cop |
| 37 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Year | amod |
| 38 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Year | amod |
| 39 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 means | conj |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 barbecue | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 barbie | det |
| 42 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 43 barbie | punct |
| 43 | barbie | barbie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 » | compound |
| 44 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 barbecue | nsubj |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 barbecue | cop |
| 46 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 barbecue | det |
| 47 | Aussie | aussie | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 barbecue | amod |
| 48 | barbecue | barbecue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Howay | Geordie | come on drip nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | stylish clothes | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | cariad » | for darling; welsh property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present · passive | Mashallah | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | admire | to-infinitive | something | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | Hogmanay | Scottish New Year | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | barbie » | a Aussie barbecue | 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:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:36.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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