When a parent has died, sentence 8
His buddy Marco just says, «Yo, come with us, my uncle's got an extra ticket, no cap.» («No cap» means no lie, for real.) Darnell is sad, then grateful.
Who acts: buddy, uncle, cap, Darnell · What happens: say, come, get, mean, be · To what, where: extra ticket, lie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» 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 (buddy, uncle, cap, Darnell), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 buddy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | buddy | buddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | Marco | Marco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 buddy | appos |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 says | advmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 8 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 10 come | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yo | punct |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | aux |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 come | advcl |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ticket | det |
| 19 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ticket | amod |
| 20 | ticket | ticket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cap | punct |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 cap | det |
| 23 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ticket | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 means | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 means | punct |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 cap | punct |
| 28 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 cap | det |
| 29 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 means | nsubj |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 cap | punct |
| 31 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | parataxis |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 lie | det |
| 33 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 means | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 real | punct |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 real | case |
| 36 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 means | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 means | punct |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 means | punct |
| 39 | Darnell | Darnell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 sad | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 sad | cop |
| 41 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | parataxis |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 grateful | punct |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 grateful | advmod |
| 44 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 sad | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | dad's buddy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | with us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · perfect | my uncle | a extra ticket | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ticket=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | no cap | no lie | for real | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lie=Theme for real=Attribute | |||
| 5 | is | present | Darnell | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | Darnell not said here | then | 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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:8.
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, 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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