--- title: In split speech, commas go around the "said" part, and the second pa… — Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers · tree and pragmatics description: In split speech, commas go around the "said" part, and the second part starts with a small letter if it continues the same sentence. Who acts: commas, second part, part. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (commas, second part, part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson:10 # text = In split speech, commas go around the "said" part, and the second part starts with a small letter if it continues the same sentence. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 split split NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 around around ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 12 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 amod _ _ 17 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 continues continue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | commas | | | split speech | | around the said part | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around part=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **start** | present | the second part | | | | | with a small letter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality | | 4 | **continue** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | part | the same sentence | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:english:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson:10`. **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 ×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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