Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 1
Some couples get engaged, which is a promise to marry, then plan a wedding, and after it go away on a honeymoon; some couples never marry but stay together, and all of these are normal.
Who acts: wedding, couples, all · What happens: engage, be, marry, plan, go away, not marry · To what, where: couples, promise, wedding, honeymoon
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dates, engagements and weddings» of the adult life 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 (wedding, couples, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 couples | det |
| 2 | couples | couple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 engaged | aux:pass |
| 4 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 promise | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 promise | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 promise | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 promise | det |
| 9 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 engaged | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 marry | mark |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promise | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 plan | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 plan | advmod |
| 14 | plan | plan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 marry | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wedding | det |
| 16 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plan | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 go | cc |
| 19 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 plan | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 honeymoon | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 honeymoon | det |
| 25 | honeymoon | honeymoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 marry | punct |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 couples | det |
| 28 | couples | couple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 marry | nsubj |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 marry | advmod |
| 30 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 plan | conj |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 stay | cc |
| 32 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 marry | conj |
| 33 | together | together | ADV | _ | 32 stay | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 normal | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 normal | cc |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 normal | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 these | case |
| 38 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 all | nmod |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 normal | cop |
| 40 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 engaged | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | present · passive | some couples | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a promise | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | plan | infinitive | a wedding | then | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go away | infinitive | wedding | a honeymoon | away property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on honeymoon=Location | |||
| 6 | not marry | infinitive | some couples | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | stay together | present | some couples not said here | together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | present | all | normal 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, 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:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:1.
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): 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.
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