Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 1
Tom said he was at the park but went to the river, and now Mum wants a text every time he arrives anywhere for a month; it feels harsh, but each text is one rung on a ladder back up.
Who acts: Tom, Mum, text · What happens: say, be, go, want, arrive, feel · To what, where: park, river, text, time, one rung, ladder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» 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 (Tom, Mum, text), 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 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 park | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 park | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 park | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 park | det |
| 7 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wants | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wants | cc |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | _ | 17 wants | advmod |
| 16 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 wants | nsubj |
| 17 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 text | det |
| 19 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wants | obj |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wants | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 arrives | nsubj |
| 23 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | acl:relcl |
| 24 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 arrives | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 month | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 month | det |
| 27 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arrives | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 feels | punct |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 feels | nsubj |
| 30 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 31 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 feels | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rung | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 rung | cc |
| 34 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 text | det |
| 35 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rung | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 rung | cop |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 rung | nummod |
| 38 | rung | rung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 feels | conj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 ladder | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 ladder | det |
| 41 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rung | nmod |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 43 up | advmod |
| 43 | up | up | ADV | _ | 38 rung | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Tom | the park | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Tom not said here | the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | want | present | Mum | a text | now; time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot text=Theme | |||
| 5 | arrive | present | Tom | every time not said here | month | anywhere property | tree rules | ||
| 6 | feel | present | text | harsh property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | each text | one rung | a ladder | tree rules |
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:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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