Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 20

Sarcasm means saying the opposite of what you mean to make a point, like "glad you could join us" to someone who is late.

Who acts: Sarcasm, you · What happens: mean, say, make, join, be · To what, where: opposite, point, us · 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 (Sarcasm, you), 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	Sarcasm	sarcasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 opposite	det
5	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 opposite	nmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 mean	nsubj
9	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 mean	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 point	det
13	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 join	punct
15	like	like	SCONJ	_	20 join	mark
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 glad	punct
17	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 join	advcl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 join	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 join	aux
20	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	conj
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 join	obj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 join	punct
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 someone	case
24	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 join	obl
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 late	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 late	cop
27	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 someone	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Sarcasm			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	Sarcasm not said here	the opposite		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic
3	mean	present	you			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	a point		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset point=Product
5	join in a quote	could	you	us	to someone	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient to someone=Co-Patient
6	is	present			late property	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:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:20.

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. 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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