Telling the time, sentence 16
Slang here: "like" at the end (Yorkshire) adds a shrug; "wee" (Northern Ireland) means small; "sure" (Ireland) starts a sentence; "y'all" (Texas) means you all; "ah'm no" (Scotland) means I'm not; "arvo" (Australia) means afternoon; "my lover" (Bath) means dear.
Who acts: shrug, wee, Ireland, y'all, people, arvo · What happens: add, mean, start, be, not mean, not be · To what, where: end, sentence, you, arvo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Telling the time» of the french 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 (shrug, wee, Ireland, 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 | Slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Slang | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 starts | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 starts | punct |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 adds | mark |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 adds | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Yorkshire | punct |
| 11 | Yorkshire | Yorkshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 end | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Yorkshire | punct |
| 13 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 starts | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shrug | det |
| 15 | shrug | shrug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 adds | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 wee | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wee | punct |
| 18 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wee | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ireland | punct |
| 21 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Ireland | amod |
| 22 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ireland | punct |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 adds | advcl:relcl |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 means | xcomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 sure | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 sure | punct |
| 28 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 adds | parataxis |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 sure | punct |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 Ireland | punct |
| 31 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 starts | nsubj |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 Ireland | punct |
| 33 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slang | advcl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 sentence | det |
| 35 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 starts | obj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 y'all | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 y'all | punct |
| 38 | y'all | y'all | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 means | nsubj |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 y'all | punct |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 Texas | punct |
| 41 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 sentence | appos |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 Texas | punct |
| 43 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 starts | advcl:relcl |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 means | obj |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 55 means | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 no | punct |
| 48 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 50 no | discourse |
| 49 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 no | cop |
| 50 | no | no | ADV | _ | 55 means | advmod |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 no | punct |
| 52 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 53 Scotland | punct |
| 53 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 no | appos |
| 54 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 53 Scotland | punct |
| 55 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slang | advcl:relcl |
| 56 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 61 arvo | nsubj |
| 57 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 61 arvo | cop |
| 58 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 61 arvo | advmod |
| 59 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 61 arvo | punct |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 61 arvo | punct |
| 61 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 means | nsubj |
| 62 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 61 arvo | punct |
| 63 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 64 Australia | punct |
| 64 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 66 means | nsubj |
| 65 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 64 Australia | punct |
| 66 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 means | ccomp |
| 67 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 means | obj |
| 68 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 76 means | punct |
| 69 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 71 lover | punct |
| 70 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 71 lover | nmod:poss |
| 71 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 76 means | nsubj |
| 72 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 71 lover | punct |
| 73 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 74 Bath | punct |
| 74 | Bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 lover | appos |
| 75 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 74 Bath | punct |
| 76 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slang | advcl:relcl |
| 77 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 76 means | xcomp |
| 78 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slang | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present | a shrug | at the end | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | wee | small property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | start | present | Ireland | a sentence | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | y'all | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | no property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | not is a in a quote | present | people | arvo | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | mean | present | arvo | afternoon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | mean | present | my lover | dear property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:french:012-telling-the-time.lesson:16.
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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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