--- title: In Irish English "I'm after eating" means "I have just eaten"; this… — Tenses: past, present and future · tree and pragmatics description: In Irish English "I'm after eating" means "I have just eaten"; this pattern comes from the Irish language. Who acts: British speakers, pattern. 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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 (British speakers, pattern), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:008-tenses-past-present-future.lesson:13 # text = In Irish English "I'm after eating" means "I have just eaten"; this pattern comes from the Irish language. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 008-tenses-past-present-future.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 after after SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 just just ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | present · progressive | British speakers *= speaker* | Irish English *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | present · perfect | British speakers *= speaker* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | present | this pattern | | | Irish English | | from the Irish language | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from language=Initial\_Location | 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:008-tenses-past-present-future.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Tenses: past, present and future, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/8-tenses-past-present-future/12/) - next →: [Tenses: past, present and future, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/8-tenses-past-present-future/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/8-tenses-past-present-future/)