--- title: Cockney rhyming slang from the East End of London swaps a word for a… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics description: Cockney rhyming slang from the East End of London swaps a word for a phrase that rhymes with it: apples and pears means stairs, dog and bone means phone, and butcher's hook means look; often the rhyming word is dropped, as in "have a butcher's". Who acts: Cockney, phrase, apples, dog. 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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 (Cockney, phrase, apples, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.lesson:10 # text = Cockney rhyming slang from the East End of London swaps a word for a phrase that rhymes with it: apples and pears means stairs, dog and bone means phone, and butcher's hook means look; often the rhyming word is dropped, as in "have a butcher's". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cockney cockney NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 2 rhyming rhyme VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 3 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 End end PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 swaps swap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 rhymes rhyme VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 pears pear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 25 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=30:punct 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 butcher butcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 38 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 40 often often ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 rhyming rhyme VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 amod _ _ 43 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 ccomp _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 47 as as SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 48 in in SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 50 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 butcher butcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 53 's 's PART POS _ 52 case _ _ 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=52:punct 55 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rhyme** | gerund | Cockney *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **swap** | present | Cockney | a word | | | | for a phrase | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent word=Theme for phrase=Co-Theme | | 3 | **rhyme** | present | a phrase | | | | | with slang | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with it=Co-Patient | | 4 | **mean** | present | apples and pears | stairs | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | dog and bone | phone | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | butcher's hook | look | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Topic | | 7 | **rhyme** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **drop** | present · passive | | the rhyming word | | | | often *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 9 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a butcher | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butcher=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:language:018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.lesson:10`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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