--- title: Storytellers often say "So I'm walking down the road, and this dog c… — Tenses: past, present and future · tree and pragmatics description: Storytellers often say "So I'm walking down the road, and this dog comes up to me..." to make a past story feel live; and in Irish English "I'm after eating my dinner" means I have just eaten, not that I'm about to. Who acts: Storytellers, dog, past story, I. 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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 (Storytellers, dog, past story, I), 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:4 # text = Storytellers often say "So I'm walking down the road, and this dog comes up to me..." to make a past story feel live; and in Irish English "I'm after eating my dinner" means I have just eaten, not that I'm about to. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Storytellers storyteller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 5 So so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 9 down down ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 20 ... ... PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 28 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obl 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 after after SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 csubj _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 42 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 44 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 just just ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 ccomp _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 48 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 49 that that SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 50 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 52 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ _ 53 to to PART TO _ 52 xcomp _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Storytellers | | | | | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **walk down** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Storytellers *= storyteller* | the road | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory | | 3 | **come up** *in a quote* | present | this dog | | Storytellers *= storyteller* | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | this dog *not said here* | a past story | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | infinitive | a past story *not said here* | | | | | live *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I | my dinner | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | | 7 | **mean** | present | eating | | | Irish English | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **eat** | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **not** **is** | present | I | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/8-tenses-past-present-future/3/) - next →: [Tenses: past, present and future, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/8-tenses-past-present-future/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/8-tenses-past-present-future/)