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title: For weeks she thought, «It's because of me.» In the end she said it… — Divorce and two homes · tree and pragmatics
description: For weeks she thought, «It's because of me.» In the end she said it out loud, and Mum sat on her bed: «Grown-ups split up for grown-up reasons, petal. Who acts: Ashley, row, Mum, Grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Divorce and two homes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Divorce and two homes, sentence 8

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For weeks she thought, «It's because of me.» In the end she said it out loud, and Mum sat on her bed: «Grown-ups split up for grown-up reasons, petal.

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**Who acts:** Ashley, row, Mum, Grown ups · **What happens:** think, be, say, sit, split up, grow up · **To what, where:** row, end, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Divorce and two homes» 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 (Ashley, row, Mum, Grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:516-divorce-and-two-homes.lesson:8
# text = For weeks she thought, «It's because of me.» In the end she said it out loud, and Mum sat on her bed: «Grown-ups split up for grown-up reasons, petal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 516-divorce-and-two-homes.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): R4-particle ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
7	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	ccomp	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	In	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
31	Grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
33	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=37:compound
40	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
42	petal	petal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	vocative	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Ashley |  |  |  | week |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | row |  |  |  |  | because Ashley | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ashley | row |  |  | in the end | loud *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme in end=Manner |
| 4 | **sit** | past | Mum |  |  | Ashley's bed |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **split up** *in a quote* | participle | Grown ups |  |  |  |  | for grown reasons; petal *vocative* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **grow up** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R4-particle ×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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