Promises, memory and keeping each other safe, sentence 13
Telling someone's stories keeps them alive in people's memories.
Who acts: Telling · What happens: tell, keep · To what, where: stories · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» 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 (Telling), 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 keeps | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 stories | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 someone | case |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Telling | obj |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 keeps | obj |
| 7 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keeps | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 memories | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 memories | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 people | case |
| 11 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 alive | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | someone's stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | Telling | stories = story | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.lesson:13.
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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