Tenses: past, present and future, sentence 8
Gonna is the spoken form of "going to"; "I was going to" shows a past plan that didn't happen; write "going to" in formal work.
Who acts: Gonna, spoken form, historic present, past plan · What happens: speak, be, go, show, not happen, write · To what, where: spoken form, past plan, formal work · 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 (Gonna, spoken form, historic present, past plan), 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 | Gonna | Gonna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 form | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 form | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 form | det |
| 4 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 form | amod |
| 5 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 form | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 going | flat |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 shows | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 going | flat |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 18 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 form | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 plan | det |
| 20 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plan | amod |
| 21 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shows | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 happen | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 happen | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 happen | advmod |
| 25 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 plan | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 write | punct |
| 27 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 form | parataxis |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 going | punct |
| 29 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 write | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 going | flat |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 going | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 work | case |
| 33 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 work | amod |
| 34 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 write | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 form | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | participle | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Gonna | the spoken form | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | gerund | the spoken form not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | past · progressive | the historic present = present | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | show | present | a past plan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent plan=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | not happen | past · do-support | a past plan | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | write | infinitive | formal work | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | go in a quote | gerund | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:8.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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