Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 16
In Scots "dinnae" means don't, "fash yersel" means worry yourself, "ken" means know and "whit" means what; Scots is a language closely related to English.
Who acts: dinnae, yersel means, ken, whit, Scots · What happens: mean, not do, fash, worry, know, be · To what, where: Scots, yourself, English · 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 (dinnae, yersel means, ken, whit), 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 Scots | case |
| 2 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 means | obl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dinnae | punct |
| 4 | dinnae | dinnae | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dinnae | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fash | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fash | punct |
| 11 | fash | fash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | conj |
| 12 | yersel | yersel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | compound |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 yersel | punct |
| 14 | means | means | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 worry | nsubj |
| 15 | worry | worry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fash | ccomp |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 worry | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 means | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 ken | punct |
| 19 | ken | ken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 means | nsubj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 ken | punct |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 means | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 means | cc |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 whit | punct |
| 25 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 means | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 whit | punct |
| 27 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 means | conj |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 means | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 Scots | punct |
| 30 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 related | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 related | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 language | det |
| 33 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Scots | appos |
| 34 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 35 related | advmod |
| 35 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 English | case |
| 37 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 related | obl |
| 38 | . | . | 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 | dinnae | Scots | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fash in a quote | present | dinnae not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | worry | present | yersel means | yourself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | ken | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | know | present | ken not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | mean | present | whit | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 8 | is | present | Scots | English | closely, related property | 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:16.
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): 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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