A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents, sentence 17
A boy in Texas, jealous of his new baby sister, tried to lift her out of her cot by himself; she nearly fell, and his dad caught her just in time.
Who acts: boy, Texas, dad · What happens: try, lift, fall, catch · To what, where: Texas, cot
This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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 (boy, Texas, dad), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 jealous | punct |
| 6 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 boy | amod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sister | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sister | amod |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sister | compound |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jealous | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sister | punct |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 lift | mark |
| 15 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lift | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 cot | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 out | fixed |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cot | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cot | cot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lift | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 lift | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 26 fell | advmod |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tried | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 caught | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 caught | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 dad | nmod:poss |
| 30 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 caught | nsubj |
| 31 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fell | conj |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 caught | obj |
| 33 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 time | advmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 caught | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | a boy in Texas | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lift not said to happen | to-infinitive | a boy in Texas not said here | Texas | Texas's cot | by boy | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme out cot=Destination by himself=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | fall | past | Texas | nearly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | catch | past | boy's dad | Texas | time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.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): 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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