English words that came from French, sentence 13
Un souvenir is a keepsake, but in French it also means any memory; se souvenir means to remember.
Who acts: souvenir, se souvenir · What happens: be, mean, remember · To what, where: keepsake, memory
This is a sentence of the lesson «English words that came from French» 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 (souvenir, se souvenir), 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 | Un | Un | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 souvenir | det |
| 2 | souvenir | souvenir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keepsake | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 keepsake | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 keepsake | det |
| 5 | keepsake | keepsake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 means | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 French | case |
| 9 | French | French | PROPN | _ | 12 means | obl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 means | nsubj |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 means | advmod |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 keepsake | conj |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 memory | det |
| 14 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 souvenir | punct |
| 16 | se | se | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 souvenir | amod |
| 17 | souvenir | souvenir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | nsubj |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 means | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 remember | mark |
| 20 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 means | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keepsake | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | un souvenir | a keepsake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | souvenir | any memory | in French | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot memory=Theme in french=Attribute | |||
| 3 | mean | present | se souvenir | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | remember not said to happen | to-infinitive | se souvenir not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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:036-english-words-that-came-from-french.lesson:13.
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. 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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