Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 9
In Welsh English "now in a minute" means soon, but not right this second.
What happens: mean · To what, where: this
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: 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 | _ | 3 English | case |
| 2 | Welsh | Welsh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 English | compound |
| 3 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 English | punct |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 means | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 minute | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 minute | det |
| 8 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 now | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 minute | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 means | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 this | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 this | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 this | advmod |
| 15 | right | right | ADV | _ | 16 this | advmod |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 means | obj |
| 17 | second | second | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 this | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | this | now | in Welsh English; soon property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot this=Theme in english=Attribute |
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:9.
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, 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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