Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 0

An accent is how people pronounce words; a dialect is a whole local way of speaking, with its own words and sometimes its own grammar; Britain and Ireland are packed with them, sometimes changing every few miles.

Who acts: accent, dialect, Britain · What happens: be, speak, change, word · To what, where: whole local way, few miles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» of the language 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 (accent, dialect, Britain), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 accent	det
2	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pronounce	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pronounce	cop
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 pronounce	advmod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pronounce	nsubj
6	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 way	parataxis
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pronounce	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 dialect	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dialect	det
10	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 way	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 way	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 way	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
14	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 speaking	mark
17	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 way	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 words	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 words	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 words	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 words	amod
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 speaking	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grammar	cc
24	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 grammar	advmod
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 grammar	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grammar	amod
27	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 words	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 packed	punct
29	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 packed	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Ireland	cc
31	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Britain	conj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 packed	cop
33	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 way	parataxis
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 packed	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 changing	punct
37	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 changing	advmod
38	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 packed	advcl
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	41 miles	det
40	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 miles	amod
41	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 changing	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a accent		pronounce property	tree rules
2	is a	present	a dialect	a whole local way		tree rules
3	speak speech: other	gerund			with dialect's own words and dialect's own grammar	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with word=Co-Agent
4	is	present	Britain and Ireland		with words = word; pack property	tree rules
5	change	gerund	Britain and Ireland not said here	every few miles	sometimes property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Patient
6	word		dialect			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:language:018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.lesson:0.

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, 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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