Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 9

And when your friend clings to his story, you don't need to win; say what is real in it, then offer to test it together.

Who acts: friend, you · What happens: cling, not need, win, say, be, offer · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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 (friend, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 need	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 clings	mark
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clings	nsubj
5	clings	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 need	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 story	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 story	nmod:poss
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clings	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 need	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 need	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 need	advmod
13	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 win	mark
15	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 need	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 need	conj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 real	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 real	cop
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 say	ccomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 real	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 offer	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 offer	advmod
25	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 need	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 test	mark
27	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 offer	xcomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 test	obj
29	together	together	ADV	_	27 test	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cling	present	your friend				to friend's story	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to story=Co-Theme
2	not need	present · do-support	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	win not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present			story		real property	tree rules
6	offer	infinitive	you not said here			then		tree rules
7	test not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	story			together property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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