--- title: Sam, of all people, lends him his best comic. — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics description: Sam, of all people, lends him his best comic. Who acts: Sam. A sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/16/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Standing by a friend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/) / 16 # Standing by a friend, sentence 16 Sam, of all people, lends him his best comic. **Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** lend · **To what, where:** best comic, Jake This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» of the everyday 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 (Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:16 # text = Sam, of all people, lends him his best comic. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 370-standing-by-a-friend.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 lends lend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 comic comic NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lend** | present | Sam of all people | Jake's best comic | Jake | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient comic=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:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:16`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Standing by a friend, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/15/) - next →: [Standing by a friend, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/)