Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes, sentence 12

"I seen" is common in many British, Irish and American dialects; standard English says "I saw" or "I have seen".

Who acts: standard English, British English · What happens: see, be, say · To what, where: many British dialects · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» 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 (standard English, British English), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seen	nsubj
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 common	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 common	cop
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	14 dialects	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dialects	amod
9	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dialects	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Irish	punct
11	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 British	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 American	cc
13	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 British	conj
14	dialects	dialect	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 common	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
16	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 English	amod
17	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 says	nsubj
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 common	parataxis
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 says	ccomp
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 seen	cc
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 seen	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 saw	conj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 common	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	participle	standard English = english			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present		many British dialects	common property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	standard English			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see in a quote	past	standard English = english			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	see in a quote	present · perfect	British English = english			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.lesson:12.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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