Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 7

Geordie is the dialect of Newcastle and keeps some very old English words; "howay" means come on and "canny" means nice or very.

Who acts: Geordie, howay, canny · What happens: be, keep, mean, come on · To what, where: dialect, old English words · 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 (Geordie, howay, canny), 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	Geordie	geordie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dialect	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dialect	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dialect	det
4	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Newcastle	case
6	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dialect	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 keeps	cc
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dialect	conj
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 words	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 old	advmod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 words	amod
12	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 words	amod
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keeps	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 howay	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 howay	punct
16	howay	howay	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 means	nsubj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 howay	punct
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dialect	conj
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 means	ccomp
20	on	on	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 means	cc
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 canny	punct
23	canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 means	nsubj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 canny	punct
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 means	conj
26	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 means	xcomp
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 very	cc
28	very	very	ADV	_	26 nice	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dialect	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Geordie	the dialect	of Newcastle	tree rules
2	keep	present	Geordie not said here	some old English words		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	mean	present	howay			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come on	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mean	present	canny		nice property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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:7.

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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