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title: In the North East of England "howay" means come on and "gan" means g… — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics
description: In the North East of England "howay" means come on and "gan" means go; "gan" comes from a very old English verb. Who acts: howay, gan. A sentence of the lesson «Verbs: doing words and being words» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 16

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In the North East of England "howay" means come on and "gan" means go; "gan" comes from a very old English verb.

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**Who acts:** howay, gan · **What happens:** mean, come on, go, come · **To what, where:** North East, old English verb · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Verbs: doing words and being words» of the language 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 (howay, gan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.lesson:16
# text = In the North East of England "howay" means come on and "gan" means go; "gan" comes from a very old English verb.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
8	howay	howay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	gan	gan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	gan	gan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **mean** | present | howay |  |  | the North East of England |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come on** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present | gan |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | present | gan |  |  | a old English verb |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from verb=Initial\_Location |

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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): R6-punct-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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