Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 6

Sometimes the wise words are "you were right", sometimes "you're both sort of right", and sometimes "it doesn't matter, want to play?"

Who acts: wise words, you, it · What happens: be, not matter, want, play · To what, where: sort · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» 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 (wise words, you, it), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 right	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 right	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 right	cop
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 right	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 right	cop
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sort	punct
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 sort	advmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 sort	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 sort	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sort	cop
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	17 sort	det
17	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 right	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 right	case
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sort	nmod
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 right	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 matter	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 matter	cc
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 matter	advmod
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 matter	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 matter	nsubj
26	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 matter	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 matter	advmod
28	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 right	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 want	punct
30	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 matter	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 play	mark
32	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 want	xcomp
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the wise words		right, sometimes property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	you	both sort	of right; sometimes property	tree rules
3	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	it		sometimes property	tree rules
4	want in a quote	present				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	play not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:6.

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. 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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