Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 2

Even small things have many names: a narrow passage between houses is a ginnel or a snicket in the North, a twitten in Sussex and an alley in many other places.

Who acts: small things, narrow passage · What happens: have, be · To what, where: many names, ginnel, North

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 (small things, narrow passage), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	2 small	advmod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 names	amod
6	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 ginnel	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 passage	det
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 passage	amod
10	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ginnel	nsubj
11	between	between	ADP	_	12 houses	case
12	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 passage	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ginnel	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ginnel	det
15	ginnel	ginnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 names	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 snicket	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 snicket	det
18	snicket	snicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ginnel	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 North	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 North	det
21	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ginnel	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 twitten	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 twitten	det
24	twitten	twitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ginnel	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 Sussex	case
26	Sussex	Sussex	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 twitten	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 alley	cc
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 alley	det
29	alley	alley	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ginnel	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 places	case
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 places	amod
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 places	amod
33	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 alley	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	small things	many names and a ginnel or a snicket and a twitten in Sussex and a alley in many other places					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
2	is a	present	a narrow passage between houses	a ginnel or a snicket and a twitten in Sussex and a alley in many other places		the North			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:2.

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): R5-strong ×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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