Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 4

When a friend repeats a royal legend, don't laugh at them; say "I heard that too, but I read it might have been made up by his enemies", and look it up together.

Who acts: friend, you, I, enemies · What happens: repeat, not laugh, say, hear, read, make up · To what, where: royal legend, that, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» 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, I, enemies), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 repeats	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repeats	nsubj
4	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 laugh	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 legend	det
6	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 legend	amod
7	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repeats	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 repeats	punct
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 laugh	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 laugh	advmod
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laugh	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 laugh	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 say	ccomp
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 heard	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	18 heard	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 read	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 read	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 read	nsubj
24	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 made	nsubj:pass
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 made	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 made	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 made	aux:pass
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 read	ccomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 made	compound:prt
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 enemies	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 enemies	nmod:poss
33	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 made	obl
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 enemies	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 look	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 look	cc
37	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 laugh	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 look	obj
39	up	up	ADP	_	37 look	compound:prt
40	together	together	ADV	_	37 look	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	repeat	present	a friend	a royal legend		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Eventuality
2	not laugh	imperative · do-support	you not said here		at stories = story	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hear in a quote	past	I	that		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
5	read in a quote	past	I			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	make up in a quote	might · perfect · passive	Cleopatra's enemies	friend		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Pivot
7	look up	infinitive	you not said here	friend	together property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

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:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.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 ×1, 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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