Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 17
In southern English informal speech "well" can mean very ("well tired"); "very tired" is the standard written form.
Who acts: southern English informal speech, tired · What happens: mean, tire, write, be · To what, where: standard written form · 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 (southern English informal speech, tired), 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 | _ | 5 speech | case |
| 2 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 speech | amod |
| 3 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 speech | compound |
| 4 | informal | informal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 speech | amod |
| 5 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 well | punct |
| 7 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 mean | discourse |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 well | punct |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 mean | aux |
| 10 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 form | parataxis |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 mean | advmod |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 tired | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tired | punct |
| 14 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 15 tired | discourse |
| 15 | tired | tire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mean | ccomp |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tired | punct |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 tired | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 tired | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 tired | punct |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 tired | advmod |
| 21 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 form | nsubj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 tired | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 form | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 form | det |
| 25 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 form | amod |
| 26 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 form | amod |
| 27 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 form | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | southern English informal speech | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tire in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | tired | the standard written form | 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:17.
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. 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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