Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who, sentence 15
In parts of Yorkshire and the North some older speakers still say "tha" for you and "thine" for yours; these come from the old thou and thee.
Who acts: older speakers, these · What happens: say, come · To what, where: tha, parts, old thou · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» 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 (older speakers, these), 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 | _ | 2 parts | case |
| 2 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 say | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Yorkshire | case |
| 4 | Yorkshire | Yorkshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 parts | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 North | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 North | det |
| 7 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Yorkshire | conj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 speakers | det |
| 9 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 speakers | amod |
| 10 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 say | nsubj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 say | advmod |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tha | punct |
| 14 | tha | tha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tha | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 thine | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 thine | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thine | cc |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 thine | punct |
| 20 | thine | thine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 thine | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 yours | case |
| 23 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 thine | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 25 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 come | nsubj |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | parataxis |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 thou | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 thou | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 thou | amod |
| 30 | thou | thou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 thee | cc |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 thou | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | some older speakers | tha | parts of Yorkshire and the North | still | for thine you for yours | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent tha=Theme in part=Manner | |
| 2 | come | present | these | the old thou | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from thou=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:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:15.
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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