Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 8

Sitting with a struggling friend, without pushing for answers, and saying "I'm here if you want to talk" often helps more than questions.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: sit, struggle, push, say, be, want · To what, where: more · 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 (I, you), 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	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 helps	nsubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 friend	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
4	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 friend	amod
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pushing	punct
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 pushing	mark
8	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sitting	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 answers	case
10	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pushing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saying	cc
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sitting	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 here	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 here	nsubj
16	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 here	cop
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 saying	ccomp
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 want	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 here	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 talk	mark
22	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 want	xcomp
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 here	punct
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 helps	advmod
25	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 helps	obj
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 questions	case
28	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 more	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 helps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund			with a struggling friend	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	struggle	gerund				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	push	gerund			for answers	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	I		here property	tree rules
6	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
7	talk not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	help	present		more	often property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary

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:8.

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 ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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