Adoption, sentence 17
His parents sit with him and admit they kept waiting for «the right time», which never came.
Who acts: parents, right time · What happens: sit, admit, keep, wait, not come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adoption» 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 (parents, right time), 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 parents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sit | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 admit | cc |
| 7 | admit | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | conj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 admit | ccomp |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 kept | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | obl |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 came | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 came | advmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | Callum's parents | with Callum | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | present | Callum's parents not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep | past | parents = parent | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | parents = parent not said here | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not come | past | the right time | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:522-adoption.lesson:17.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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