Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 12
Black cats bringing bad luck is a superstition (a belief about luck or magic with no evidence); in some places, such as parts of Britain and Japan, they are even thought to bring good luck.
Who acts: Black cats · What happens: bring, be, think · To what, where: bad luck, superstition, cats, places, good luck
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» 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 (Black cats), 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 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cats | amod |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 superstition | nsubj |
| 3 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 cats | acl |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 luck | amod |
| 5 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bringing | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 superstition | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 superstition | det |
| 8 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 belief | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 belief | det |
| 11 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 superstition | appos |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 luck | case |
| 13 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 belief | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 magic | cc |
| 15 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 luck | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 evidence | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 evidence | det |
| 18 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 belief | nmod |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 belief | punct |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 places | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 places | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 places | det |
| 23 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 thought | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 parts | punct |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 27 parts | case |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 such | fixed |
| 27 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 places | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Britain | case |
| 29 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 parts | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Japan | cc |
| 31 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Britain | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thought | punct |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 thought | aux:pass |
| 35 | even | even | ADV | _ | 36 thought | advmod |
| 36 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 superstition | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 bring | mark |
| 38 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 thought | xcomp |
| 39 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 luck | amod |
| 40 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bring | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 superstition | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | gerund | Black cats not said here | bad luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Black cats | a superstition | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present · passive | cats = cat | some places such parts of Britain and Japan | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | good luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=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:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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