--- title: His parents sit with him and admit they kept waiting for «the right… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics description: His parents sit with him and admit they kept waiting for «the right time», which never came. Who acts: parents, right time. A sentence of the lesson «Adoption» 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/522-adoption/17/) [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/) / [Adoption](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/) / 17 # Adoption, sentence 17 His parents sit with him and admit they kept waiting for «the right time», which never came. **Who acts:** parents, right time · **What happens:** sit, admit, keep, wait, not come · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Adoption» 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 (parents, right time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:522-adoption.lesson:17 # text = His parents sit with him and admit they kept waiting for «the right time», which never came. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 522-adoption.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 admit admit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 10 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | Callum's parents | | | | | with Callum | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | Callum's parents *not said here* | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **keep** | past | parents *= parent* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wait** | gerund | parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | | time | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **come** | past | the right time | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:522-adoption.lesson:17`. **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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Adoption, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/16/) - next →: [Adoption, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/)