Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 16
After a long time away, friendships may have shifted; joining back in slowly and inviting people round helps more than being cross.
Who acts: friendships, joining · What happens: shift, join, invite, help, be · To what, where: people, more
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection 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 (friendships, joining), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shifted | obl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 7 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shifted | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 shifted | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shifted | aux |
| 10 | shifted | shift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 joining | punct |
| 12 | joining | join | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 helps | csubj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 joining | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 slowly | case |
| 15 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 13 back | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 inviting | cc |
| 17 | inviting | invite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 joining | conj |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 inviting | obj |
| 19 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 helps | amod |
| 20 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shifted | parataxis |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 helps | obj |
| 22 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 24 cross | mark |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 cross | cop |
| 24 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 helps | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shifted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shift | may · perfect | friendships | time | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | join | gerund | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | invite | gerund | people | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | help | present | joining | more | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | is | gerund | cross property | tree rules |
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:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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