Keeping promises, sentence 17
Words like "now now" (South Africa: soon, in a bit) change from place to place; when it matters, say exactly when.
Who acts: Words, it · What happens: change, place, matter, say · To what, where: bit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» 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 (Words, it), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 change | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 Africa | case |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Africa | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 now | advmod |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 Africa | advmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 now | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Africa | punct |
| 8 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Africa | compound |
| 9 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Words | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 change | punct |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 change | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 soon | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bit | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bit | det |
| 15 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 change | obl |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 bit | punct |
| 17 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 say | parataxis |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 change | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 21 place | mark |
| 21 | place | place | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 change | acl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 matters | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 matters | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 matters | nsubj |
| 25 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 say | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Words | punct |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 29 when | advmod |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 say | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Words like South Africa | a bit | from place; soon property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from place=Initial_State | |||
| 2 | place | to-infinitive | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | matter | present | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:religion-ethics:086-keeping-promises.lesson:17.
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 ×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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