Tenses: past, present and future, sentence 4

Storytellers often say "So I'm walking down the road, and this dog comes up to me..." to make a past story feel live; and in Irish English "I'm after eating my dinner" means I have just eaten, not that I'm about to.

Who acts: Storytellers, dog, past story, I, eating · What happens: say, walk down, come up, make, feel, eat · To what, where: road, Storytellers, past story, dinner, Irish English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tenses: past, present and future» 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 (Storytellers, dog, past story, I), 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	Storytellers	storyteller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 walking	punct
5	So	so	ADV	_	8 walking	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 walking	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 walking	aux
8	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 say	ccomp
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 comes	cc
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 dog	det
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	nsubj
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 walking	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 comes	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 comes	obl
20	...	...	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 comes	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 story	det
25	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 story	amod
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
27	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 make	xcomp
28	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feel	xcomp
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 means	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 eating	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 English	case
32	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 English	amod
33	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 means	obl
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 eating	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 eating	nsubj
36	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 eating	aux
37	after	after	SCONJ	_	38 eating	mark
38	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 means	csubj
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 dinner	nmod:poss
40	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 eating	obj
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 eating	punct
42	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 eaten	nsubj
44	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 eaten	aux
45	just	just	ADV	_	46 eaten	advmod
46	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 means	ccomp
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 about	punct
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 about	advmod
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 about	mark
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 about	nsubj
51	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 about	cop
52	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 eaten	conj
53	to	to	PART	_	52 about	xcomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Storytellers				often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk down in a quote	present · progressive	Storytellers = storyteller	the road				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory
3	come up in a quote	present	this dog		Storytellers = storyteller			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
4	make	to-infinitive	this dog not said here	a past story				tree rules
5	feel	infinitive	a past story not said here				live property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	eat in a quote	present · progressive	I	my dinner				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
7	mean	present	eating			Irish English		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	eat	present · perfect	I					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	not is	present	I				about 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:008-tenses-past-present-future.lesson:4.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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