Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 17
In the Midlands and North of England "nesh" describes someone who feels the cold easily or is a bit soft.
Who acts: nesh · What happens: describe, feel, be · To what, where: someone, Midlands, cold
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 (nesh), 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 Midlands | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Midlands | det |
| 3 | Midlands | midland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 describes | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nesh | cc |
| 5 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Midlands | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 England | case |
| 7 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 North | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 nesh | punct |
| 9 | nesh | nesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 describes | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 nesh | punct |
| 11 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 describes | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 feels | nsubj |
| 14 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 someone | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cold | det |
| 16 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feels | obj |
| 17 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 14 feels | advmod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 soft | cc |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 soft | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bit | det |
| 21 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 soft | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feels | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 describes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | nesh | someone | the Midlands and North of England | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | present | the cold | easily property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a bit obl:unmarked; soft property | 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.
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:17.
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 ×2. 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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