Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 6

Scouse is the accent and dialect of Liverpool, shaped over centuries partly by Irish and Welsh speech; "boss" means great and "la" means lad or mate.

Who acts: Scouse, boss, la · What happens: be, shape, mean · To what, where: accent, great, lad

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 (Scouse, boss, la), 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	Scouse	scouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accent	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 accent	det
4	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dialect	cc
6	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accent	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Liverpool	case
8	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 accent	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 accent	punct
10	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 accent	acl
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 centuries	case
12	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shaped	obl
13	partly	partly	ADV	_	10 shaped	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	18 speech	case
15	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 speech	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Welsh	cc
17	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Irish	conj
18	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shaped	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 means	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 boss	punct
21	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 means	nsubj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 boss	punct
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accent	parataxis
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 means	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 means	cc
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 la	punct
27	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	nsubj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 la	punct
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 means	conj
30	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	obj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 mate	cc
32	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lad	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 accent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Scouse	the accent and dialect		of Liverpool	tree rules
2	shape	participle		the accent and dialect not said here	century	by Irish speech; partly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	mean	present	boss	great			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic
4	mean	present	la	lad or mate			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Topic

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:6.

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, 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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