When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 5

To afford something means to have enough money for it after the important things are paid.

What happens: afford, mean, have, pay · To what, where: something, enough money, important things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» of the money 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: 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	To	to	PART	_	2 afford	mark
2	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 means	csubj
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 afford	obj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 means	ccomp
7	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 money	amod
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 money	nmod
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 paid	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 things	det
13	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 paid	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 paid	aux:pass
16	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 have	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	afford	to-infinitive	something		tree rules
2	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	enough money	for money	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
4	pay	present · passive	the important things		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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:money:023-when-money-is-tight.lesson:5.

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): no change. 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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