Foster care, sentence 6
Every Saturday Josiah's foster mom calls up the stairs, «Y'all want pancakes?» («y'all» means you all, in the southern USA).
Who acts: foster mom, Y'all · What happens: call up, want, mean · To what, where: stairs, pancakes, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Foster care» 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 (foster mom, Y'all), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 Josiah | det |
| 2 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Josiah | compound |
| 3 | Josiah | Josiah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mom | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Josiah | case |
| 5 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mom | compound |
| 6 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calls | nsubj |
| 7 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 calls | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stairs | det |
| 10 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 calls | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 13 | Y'all | y'all | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 calls | conj |
| 15 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 want | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 calls | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 calls | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 y'all | punct |
| 20 | y'all | y'all | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | nsubj |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 y'all | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 calls | parataxis |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 means | obj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 USA | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 USA | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 USA | det |
| 28 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 USA | amod |
| 29 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 means | obl |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call up speech: assert | present | every Saturday Josiah's foster mom | the stairs | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stair=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | Y'all | pancakes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pancake=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | y'all | you | in the southern USA | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot you=Theme in usa=Attribute |
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:521-foster-care.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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