English words that came from French, sentence 8

Voilà means "there you go" or "there it is"; it comes from vois là, "see there", and is spelled with an accent, not "walla".

Who acts: Voilà, you, meat · What happens: mean, go, be, come, see, spell · To what, where: vois là · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Voilà, you, meat), 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	Voilà	Voilà	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 go	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 is	cc
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	discourse
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 is	nsubj
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	conj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 comes	nsubj
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 là	case
18	vois	vois	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 là	compound
19	là	là	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 comes	parataxis
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 see	advmod
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spelled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spelled	cc
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 spelled	aux:pass
28	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 comes	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 accent	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 accent	det
31	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spelled	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 walla	punct
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 walla	advmod
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 walla	punct
35	walla	walla	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 accent	appos
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 walla	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Voilà			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	present	you	there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be in a quote	present	meat	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	present	meat	vois là		tree rules
5	see in a quote	infinitive		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	spell	present · passive	meat not said here		with a accent	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: with accent=Manner

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.

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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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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