Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 2

Then Dev's mum told Kyle's mum that Dev's dad had moved out; Kyle felt shocked, then guilty for being so cross; over the next month he just sat with Dev, played games without asking questions, said "I'm here if you want to talk", and slowly Dev talked again.

Who acts: mum, dad, Kyle, I, you, Dev · What happens: tell, move out, feel, be, sit, play · To what, where: mum, games, questions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face» 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 (mum, dad, Kyle, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 told	advmod
2	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mum	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Dev	case
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mum	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Kyle	case
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 moved	mark
10	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dad	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Dev	case
12	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moved	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 moved	aux
14	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 moved	compound:prt
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 felt	punct
17	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 felt	nsubj
18	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
19	shocked	shocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 felt	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 guilty	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 guilty	advmod
22	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shocked	conj
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 cross	mark
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 cross	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 cross	advmod
26	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 guilty	advcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 played	punct
28	over	over	ADP	_	31 month	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 month	det
30	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 month	amod
31	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sat	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sat	nsubj
33	just	just	ADV	_	34 sat	advmod
34	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 Dev	case
36	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 sat	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 played	punct
38	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sat	conj
39	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 played	obj
40	without	without	SCONJ	_	41 asking	mark
41	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 played	advcl
42	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 asking	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct
44	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 here	punct
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 here	nsubj
47	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 here	cop
48	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 said	ccomp
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 want	mark
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 want	nsubj
51	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 here	advcl
52	to	to	PART	_	53 talk	mark
53	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 want	xcomp
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 here	punct
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 talked	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 talked	cc
57	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	59 talked	advmod
58	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 talked	nsubj
59	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
60	again	again	ADV	_	59 talked	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Dev's mum		Kyle's mum	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
2	move out	past · perfect	Dev's dad					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	feel	past	Kyle				shocked property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	gerund	Kyle not said here				cross property	tree rules
5	sit	past	Kyle			month	with Dev	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	play	past	Kyle not said here	games				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
7	ask speech: ask	gerund	Kyle not said here	questions				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
8	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	is in a quote	present	I				here property	tree rules
10	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
11	talk not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	talk	past	Dev			again	slowly property	vn talk-37.5 «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:reflection:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:2.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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