Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 14
Ginnel and snicket are northern English words for a narrow passage between houses; twitten is a Sussex word for a narrow lane.
Who acts: Ginnel, twitten · What happens: be · To what, where: northern English words, Sussex word
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 (Ginnel, twitten), 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 | Ginnel | ginnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 words | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 snicket | cc |
| 3 | snicket | snicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ginnel | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 words | cop |
| 5 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 6 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 passage | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 passage | det |
| 10 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 passage | amod |
| 11 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 words | nmod |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 houses | case |
| 13 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 passage | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 word | punct |
| 15 | twitten | twitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 word | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 word | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 word | det |
| 18 | Sussex | Sussex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 word | compound |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 words | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 lane | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lane | det |
| 22 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lane | amod |
| 23 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 word | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 words | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ginnel and snicket | northern English words | for a narrow passage between houses | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | twitten | a Sussex word | for a narrow lane | 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:14.
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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