--- title: Geordie is the dialect of Newcastle and keeps some very old English… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics description: Geordie is the dialect of Newcastle and keeps some very old English words; "howay" means come on and "canny" means nice or very. Who acts: Geordie, howay, canny. 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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 (Geordie, howay, canny), 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:7 # text = Geordie is the dialect of Newcastle and keeps some very old English words; "howay" means come on and "canny" means nice or very. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Geordie geordie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dialect dialect NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Newcastle Newcastle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 howay howay NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 20 on on ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 canny canny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nsubj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 26 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Geordie | the dialect | | | | of Newcastle | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present | Geordie *not said here* | some old English words | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | howay | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **come on** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | present | canny | | | | | nice *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:7`. **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. 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