Adoption, sentence 18
«We should've told you years ago.
Who acts: We · What happens: tell · To what, where: you · 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 (We), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 told | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | aux |
| 4 | 've | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | aux |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 told | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | should · perfect | We | you | ago property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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:18.
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 ×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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