--- title: In Belfast, Jago's mates talk about their grannies, and Jago says, «… — Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met · tree and pragmatics description: In Belfast, Jago's mates talk about their grannies, and Jago says, «I never met mine.» They died before he was born. Who acts: mates, Jago. 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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 (mates, Jago), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:20 # text = In Belfast, Jago's mates talk about their grannies, and Jago says, «I never met mine.» They died before he was born. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Belfast Belfast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Jago Jago PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 grannies grannie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Jago Jago PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 20 mine mine PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 23 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 25 before before SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | Jago's mates | | | Belfast | | about mates's grannies | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about grannie=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jago | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **meet** *in a quote* | past | Jago | Jago | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mine=Co-Agent | | 4 | **die** | past | mates *= mate* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **bear** | past · passive | | Jago | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:20`. **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, 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. 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