Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 12
Borrowing without asking takes away the owner's right to say no, even if you give the thing back.
Who acts: Borrowing, you · What happens: borrow, ask, take away, say, give · To what, where: right, thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Finders keepers and what belongs to whom» of the religion ethics 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 (Borrowing, 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 | Borrowing | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 takes | csubj |
| 2 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 3 asking | mark |
| 3 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Borrowing | advcl |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 takes | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 owner | det |
| 7 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 right | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 owner | case |
| 9 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 right | acl |
| 12 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 say | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 give | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 takes | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 thing | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | gerund | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | take away | present | Borrowing | the owner's right | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Borrowing not said here | the owner's right not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | give a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the thing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
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:religion-ethics:042-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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