Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up, sentence 10

"Spill the tea" is slang from African American speech, now used by many young people, meaning "share the gossip"; no real tea is spilt.

What happens: spill, be, use, mean, share, spilt · To what, where: tea, slang, African American speech, gossip, real tea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Spill	punct
2	Spill	spill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 slang	csubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tea	det
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Spill	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Spill	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 slang	cop
7	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 speech	case
9	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 speech	amod
10	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 speech	amod
11	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slang	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
13	now	now	ADV	_	14 used	advmod
14	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 slang	advcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 people	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 people	amod
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 people	amod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 used	obl:agent
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 meaning	punct
20	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 slang	advcl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 share	punct
22	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 meaning	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gossip	det
24	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 share	obj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 share	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 spilt	punct
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 tea	det
28	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tea	amod
29	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spilt	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 spilt	aux:pass
31	spilt	spilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 slang	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 slang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	spill in a quote	infinitive	the tea			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=Theme
2	is a	present	slang	African American speech		tree rules
3	use	participle			now	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mean	gerund				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	share not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	the gossip			tree rules
6	spilt	present · passive	no real tea			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.

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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, 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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