From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 13
Jamal from Birmingham says he is English, British, Black and a Villa fan, and yes, that is allowed.
Who acts: Jamal · What happens: say, be, allow · To what, where: English, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» of the history 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 (Jamal), 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 | Jamal | Jamal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Birmingham | case |
| 3 | Birmingham | Birmingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jamal | nmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 English | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 English | cop |
| 7 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 British | punct |
| 9 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 English | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Black | punct |
| 11 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 English | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 English | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fan | det |
| 14 | Villa | Villa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fan | compound |
| 15 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 English | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 allowed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 allowed | cc |
| 18 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 22 allowed | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yes | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 allowed | aux:pass |
| 22 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 says | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | 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 | say speech: assert | present | Jamal from Birmingham | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Jamal | English and a Villa fan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Jamal not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | Jamal not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | allow | present · passive | that | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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:history:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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