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title: Bring goes bring, brought, brought, like think, thought and buy, bou… — Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bring goes bring, brought, brought, like think, thought and buy, bought; "brung" is heard in some dialects, especially in the US, but is not standard English. A sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes, sentence 8

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Bring goes bring, brought, brought, like think, thought and buy, bought; "brung" is heard in some dialects, especially in the US, but is not standard English.

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**What happens:** bring, go, buy, hear, not be · **To what, where:** think, brung, dialects, standard English

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.lesson:8
# text = Bring goes bring, brought, brought, like think, thought and buy, bought; "brung" is heard in some dialects, especially in the US, but is not standard English.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
10	think	think	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	brung	brung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	dialects	dialect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **bring** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bring** | participle |  | think and thought |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **buy** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **buy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **hear** | present · passive |  | brung |  | some dialects in the US |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 9 | **not** **is a** | present |  | standard English |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): 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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