Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 1

Take a trip: in Liverpool something great is "boss, la", in Newcastle "howay, it's canny good" means come on, this is really good, in Aberdeen "Fit like?" means how are you, and in Dublin a night of "great craic" was great fun.

Who acts: you, trip, something, this, Aberdeen · What happens: take, be, mean, come on · To what, where: trip, Dublin, boss, you · 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 (you, trip, something, this), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 trip	det
3	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 something	case
6	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 something	compound
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 means	nsubj
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 boss	cop
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 boss	punct
11	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 something	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 la	punct
13	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 something	appos
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 la	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Newcastle	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Newcastle	case
17	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 something	appos
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Newcastle	punct
19	howay	howay	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Newcastle	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 good	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 good	nsubj
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 good	cop
23	canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 good	amod
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	acl:relcl
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 good	punct
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	advcl
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 means	ccomp
28	on	on	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 good	punct
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 good	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 good	cop
32	really	really	ADV	_	33 good	advmod
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Take	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Aberdeen	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 Aberdeen	case
36	Aberdeen	Aberdeen	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 means	nsubj
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 Fit	punct
38	Fit	Fit	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Aberdeen	flat
39	like	like	INTJ	_	36 Aberdeen	discourse
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	36 Aberdeen	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Aberdeen	punct
42	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 good	parataxis
43	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	45 you	advmod
44	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 you	cop
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 means	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Dublin	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 Dublin	cc
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 Dublin	case
49	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 night	det
51	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl:unmarked
52	of	of	ADP	_	59 fun	case
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 craic	punct
54	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 craic	amod
55	craic	craic	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 night	nmod
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 craic	punct
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 fun	cop
58	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 fun	amod
59	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 night	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	a trip	Dublin	night		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trip=Value in dublin=Location
2	is a in a quote	present		boss				tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	trip				good property	tree rules
4	mean	present	something					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come on	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	this				good property	tree rules
7	mean	present	Aberdeen					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
8	is a	present		you				tree rules
9	is	past					of great fun	tree rules

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:1.

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, 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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