Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together, sentence 22
"Time and tide wait for no man" means time keeps going whatever we do.
Who acts: Time, we · What happens: wait, mean, keep, go, do · To what, where: whatever · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» 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 (Time, we), 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 | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 2 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tide | cc |
| 4 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Time | conj |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeps | nsubj |
| 12 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | ccomp |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 keeps | xcomp |
| 14 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 do | obj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | 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 | wait in a quote | present | Time and tide | for no man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | keep | present | time | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | time not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | present | we | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality |
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:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:22.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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