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title: Then one day: «Mate, I'll stay pals, but I'm no believing anything y… — Forgiving · tree and pragmatics
description: Then one day: «Mate, I'll stay pals, but I'm no believing anything you say till you stop.» His mate went quiet, then slowly stopped. Who acts: mate, you. A sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Forgiving, sentence 31

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Then one day: «Mate, I'll stay pals, but I'm no believing anything you say till you stop.» His mate went quiet, then slowly stopped.

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**Who acts:** mate, you · **What happens:** stay, not believe, say, stop, go · **To what, where:** pals, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» 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 (mate, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:454-forgiving.lesson:31
# text = Then one day: «Mate, I'll stay pals, but I'm no believing anything you say till you stop.» His mate went quiet, then slowly stopped.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 454-forgiving.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 ×2
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
6	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	pals	pal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:cop
16	no	no	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis
18	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
26	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
29	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** *in a quote* | future | Callum's mate in Glasgow *= mate* | pals |  |  | then; day | Mate *vocative* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme pal=Location |
| 2 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Callum's mate in Glasgow *= mate* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stop** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **go** | past | mate's mate |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stop** | past | mate's mate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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 ×2. **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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