When it was my fault: owning up and making it right, sentence 10

Older people often feel lonely, and a short regular phone call can mean a lot to them; it is never too late to start calling again.

Who acts: Older people, short regular phone call · What happens: feel, mean, not be, start, call · To what, where: lot, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» 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 (Older people, short regular phone call), 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	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mean	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 call	det
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 call	amod
10	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 call	amod
11	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 call	compound
12	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mean	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	aux
14	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feel	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lot	det
16	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mean	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mean	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 late	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 late	expl
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 late	cop
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 late	advmod
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 late	advmod
24	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 start	mark
26	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 late	csubj
27	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 start	xcomp
28	again	again	ADV	_	27 calling	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Older people				lonely, often property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	mean	can	a short regular phone call	a lot	people			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme to they=Attribute
3	not is	present					late property	tree rules
4	start	to-infinitive						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	call	gerund				again		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:reflection:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:10.

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, R7-rel-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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