"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 24
In South African English "now" can mean soon, "now now" a bit sooner, and "just now" a bit later.
What happens: mean
This is a sentence of the lesson «"Five more minutes" and other waiting games» 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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 English | case |
| 2 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 African | compound |
| 3 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 English | amod |
| 4 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mean | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 now | punct |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 mean | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 now | punct |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 mean | aux |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 mean | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 sooner | advmod |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 sooner | advmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 now | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bit | det |
| 17 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sooner | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 mean | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 later | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 later | cc |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 later | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 now | advmod |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 later | advmod |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 now | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bit | det |
| 26 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 later | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 sooner | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | in African English; soon property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in english=Attribute |
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:109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games.lesson:24.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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