Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 16

In the North East of England "howay" means come on and "gan" means go; "gan" comes from a very old English verb.

Who acts: howay, gan · What happens: mean, come on, go, come · To what, where: North East, old English verb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Verbs: doing words and being words» 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 (howay, gan), 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	_	4 East	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 East	det
3	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 East	compound
4	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 means	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 England	case
6	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 East	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 howay	punct
8	howay	howay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	nsubj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 howay	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 means	ccomp
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 means	cc
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 gan	punct
15	gan	gan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 means	nsubj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 gan	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	conj
18	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 means	ccomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 comes	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 gan	punct
21	gan	gan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 comes	nsubj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 gan	punct
23	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	29 verb	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 verb	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 old	advmod
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 verb	amod
28	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 verb	amod
29	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 comes	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	mean	present	howay	the North East of England	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come on	infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present	gan		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	infinitive			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	present	gan	a old English verb	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from verb=Initial_Location

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:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.lesson:16.

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. 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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