"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 1
"Back in the day" and "in my day" mean "when I was young", so the day changes with whoever says it.
Who acts: day, I · What happens: mean, be, change, say · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» 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 (day, I), 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 | _ | 2 Back | punct |
| 2 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 13 mean | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Back | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Back | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 young | cc |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 day | nmod:poss |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mean | nsubj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | punct |
| 13 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 young | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 young | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 young | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 young | cop |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mean | ccomp |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 young | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 changes | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 changes | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 changes | nsubj |
| 24 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 mean | parataxis |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 whoever | case |
| 26 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 changes | obl |
| 27 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 whoever | acl:relcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 says | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | my day | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | I | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | present | the day | with whoever | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | it | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:126-in-the-olden-days.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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