Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 12
"Tara-a-bit" means goodbye for now in Birmingham and the Black Country; "cheerio" is a goodbye heard across Britain.
Who acts: Tara, cheerio · What happens: mean, be, hear · To what, where: goodbye, Britain
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 (Tara, cheerio), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 2 | Tara | tara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bit | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 a | punct |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tara | appos |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bit | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 now | case |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 means | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Birmingham | case |
| 13 | Birmingham | Birmingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Country | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Country | det |
| 16 | Black | Black | PROPN | _ | 17 Country | compound |
| 17 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Birmingham | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 goodbye | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 cheerio | punct |
| 20 | cheerio | cheerio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 goodbye | nsubj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 cheerio | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 goodbye | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 goodbye | det |
| 24 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | parataxis |
| 25 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 goodbye | acl |
| 26 | across | across | ADP | _ | 27 Britain | case |
| 27 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 heard | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Tara | goodbye | in Birmingham and the Black Country | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot goodbye=Theme in birmingham=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a | present | cheerio | a goodbye | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | participle | a goodbye not said here | Britain | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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:12.
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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