--- title: "Youse" (Ireland, Scotland, Liverpool) and "y'all" (the American Sou… — Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk,… · tree and pragmatics description: "Youse" (Ireland, Scotland, Liverpool) and "y'all" (the American South) are plural forms of "you"; Standard English uses "you" for one or many. Who acts: Youse, Standard English. A sentence of the lesson «Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing» of the english course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Standard English and dialect: "we was"…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/) / 12 # Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing, sentence 12 "Youse" (Ireland, Scotland, Liverpool) and "y'all" (the American South) are plural forms of "you"; Standard English uses "you" for one or many. **Who acts:** Youse, Standard English · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** plural forms, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk, "we were" in writing» of the english 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 (Youse, Standard English), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:038-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were.lesson:12 # text = "Youse" (Ireland, Scotland, Liverpool) and "y'all" (the American South) are plural forms of "you"; Standard English uses "you" for one or many. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 038-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Youse Youse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 y'all y'all NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 plural plural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 Standard Standard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 obl _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Youse and y'all | plural forms | | | | of you | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | Standard English | you | | | | for one | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent you=Theme for one=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](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:038-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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