Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 13
In Ireland "craic" means fun or a good time, and "eejit" means idiot but is often said kindly between friends.
Who acts: craic, eejit · What happens: mean, say · To what, where: fun, idiot · 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 (craic, eejit), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Ireland | case |
| 2 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 craic | punct |
| 4 | craic | craic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 craic | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 time | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fun | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 means | cc |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 eejit | punct |
| 15 | eejit | eejit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 eejit | punct |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | conj |
| 18 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | obj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | aux:pass |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 said | advmod |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 means | conj |
| 23 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 22 said | advmod |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 friends | case |
| 25 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 said | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | craic | fun or a good time | in Ireland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot fun=Theme in ireland=Attribute | |||
| 2 | mean | present | eejit | idiot | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idiot=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present · passive | eejit not said here | between friends; kindly, often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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