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title: «Bríd's grand,» Shay says («grand» is Irish for fine, good), «but sh… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics
description: «Bríd's grand,» Shay says («grand» is Irish for fine, good), «but she's not mine, ye know?» He loves her and feels the gap at the same time. Who acts: Shay, grand, ye, Bríd. A sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Living in a children's home, sentence 4

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«Bríd's grand,» Shay says («grand» is Irish for fine, good), «but she's not mine, ye know?» He loves her and feels the gap at the same time.

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**Who acts:** Shay, grand, ye, Bríd · **What happens:** say, be, not be, know, love, feel · **To what, where:** Shay, gap · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» 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 (Shay, grand, ye, Bríd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:4
# text = «Bríd's grand,» Shay says («grand» is Irish for fine, good), «but she's not mine, ye know?» He loves her and feels the gap at the same time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 520-living-in-a-childrens-home.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Bríd	Bríd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	Shay	Shay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	parataxis	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
29	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
32	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
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 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Shay |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | grand |  |  |  |  | for fine; irish *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | grand *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Shay | Shay |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **love** | present | Bríd | Shay |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 7 | **feel** | present | Bríd *not said here* | the gap |  |  | time |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=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): R8-pos-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/).

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