--- title: Long ago "thou" was the friendly word for one person you knew well,… — Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who · tree and pragmatics description: Long ago "thou" was the friendly word for one person you knew well, like Ukrainian ти or French tu, and "you" or "ye" was for more than one person or someone you respected. Who acts: thou, you. 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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 (thou, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:14 # text = Long ago "thou" was the friendly word for one person you knew well, like Ukrainian ти or French tu, and "you" or "ye" was for more than one person or someone you respected. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 ago ago ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 Ukrainian ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 19 ти ти PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 tu tu NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 36 advmod _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 37 conj _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 respected respect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:acl:relcl 42 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **is a** | past | thou | the friendly word and one person | | | | for one person; ago *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | past | you | one person *not said here* | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | you | | | | | for one person | tree rules | | 4 | **respect** | past | you | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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