Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 16
In Birmingham, Zara-Leigh's grandma rings from Jamaica: «Wah gwaan, mi baby?» (Jamaican Patois for what's going on, my baby?).
Who acts: grandma · What happens: ring, go on · To what, where: Birmingham
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» 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 (grandma), 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 Birmingham | case |
| 2 | Birmingham | Birmingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Zara | punct |
| 4 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Leigh | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 rings | punct |
| 6 | Leigh | Leigh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 grandma | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Leigh | case |
| 8 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | nsubj |
| 9 | rings | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Jamaica | case |
| 11 | Jamaica | Jamaica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 rings | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 Wah | punct |
| 14 | Wah | Wah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | parataxis |
| 15 | gwaan | gwaan | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 Wah | dep |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 baby | punct |
| 17 | mi | mi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 baby | compound |
| 18 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Wah | appos |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Birmingham | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 baby | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 Patois | punct |
| 22 | Jamaican | Jamaican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Patois | amod |
| 23 | Patois | patois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 what | case |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 Patois | nmod |
| 26 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 going | aux |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 going | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 baby | punct |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 baby | nmod:poss |
| 31 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Patois | appos |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 Patois | punct |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 Patois | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Birmingham | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- greet
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=greet, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | present | Zara Leigh's grandma | Birmingham | from Jamaica | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go on | present · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «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:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:16.
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 ×2. 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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