Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 1

Picture a few classmates secretly picking on a younger child behind the bike sheds: everyone knows, nobody says anything, and the little one has no one on their side until someone is brave enough to tell.

Who acts: you, everyone, nobody, little one, someone · What happens: picture, pick on, know, say, have, be · To what, where: few classmates, younger child, bike sheds, anything, one, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Whistle-blowing: when to tell» 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 (you, everyone, nobody, little one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

command

act

request

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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