Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 20

In Belfast, Jago's mates talk about their grannies, and Jago says, «I never met mine.» They died before he was born.

Who acts: mates, Jago · What happens: talk, say, not meet, die, bear · To what, where: Belfast, Jago · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mates, Jago), 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 Belfast	case
2	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 talk	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Belfast	punct
4	Jago	Jago	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mates	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Jago	case
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	nsubj
7	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 grannies	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grannies	nmod:poss
10	grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 says	cc
13	Jago	Jago	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 met	punct
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 met	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 met	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 met	advmod
19	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 says	ccomp
20	mine	mine	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 met	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
23	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 died	nsubj
24	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	parataxis
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 born	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 born	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 born	aux:pass
28	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 died	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	present	Jago's mates		Belfast	about mates's grannies	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about grannie=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	Jago				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not meet in a quote	past	Jago	Jago			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mine=Co-Agent
4	die	past	mates = mate				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	bear	past · passive		Jago			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:20.

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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