Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 12
"Glad you could join us" said to someone 10 minutes late is sarcasm: kind words that really mean "you're late and I noticed".
Who acts: someone, kind words, you, People · What happens: join, say, be, mean, notice · To what, where: us, someone, sarcasm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» of the world 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 (someone, kind words, you, People), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 join | punct |
| 2 | Glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 join | advcl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 join | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 join | aux |
| 5 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 join | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 join | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sarcasm | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 someone | case |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 minutes | nummod |
| 12 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 someone | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 minutes | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sarcasm | cop |
| 15 | sarcasm | sarcasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 words | punct |
| 17 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 words | amod |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sarcasm | appos |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 mean | nsubj |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 mean | advmod |
| 21 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 words | acl:relcl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 late | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 late | nsubj |
| 24 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 late | cop |
| 25 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mean | ccomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 noticed | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 noticed | nsubj |
| 28 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 late | conj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 noticed | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sarcasm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join in a quote | could | someone | us | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to someone=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | sarcasm | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | kind words | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | you | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | notice in a quote | past | People | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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