--- title: Begging a drifting friend or sulking rarely helps; finding people wh… — Growing apart · tree and pragmatics description: Begging a drifting friend or sulking rarely helps; finding people who share what you love now usually does. Who acts: Begging, people, you, finding. A sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» 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/464-growing-apart/39/) [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/) / [Growing apart](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/) / 39 # Growing apart, sentence 39 Begging a drifting friend or sulking rarely helps; finding people who share what you love now usually does. **Who acts:** Begging, people, you, finding · **What happens:** beg, drift, sulk, help, find, share · **To what, where:** drifting friend, people This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» 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 (Begging, people, you, finding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:464-growing-apart.lesson:39 # text = Begging a drifting friend or sulking rarely helps; finding people who share what you love now usually does. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 464-growing-apart.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 ×2 1 Begging beg VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 drifting drift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sulking sulk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 7 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 obj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 18 usually usually ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 20 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | | | a drifting friend | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | | 2 | **drift** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sulk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **help** | present | Begging | | | | | rarely *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **find** | gerund | | people | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | | 6 | **share** | present | people | people | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **love** | present | you | | | | now | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **do** | present | finding | | | | | usually *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:464-growing-apart.lesson:39`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Growing apart, 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/38/) - next →: [Growing apart, 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/40/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/)