Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 11
"It's about time" at a wedding means the couple have been together a long time and people wondered when they would marry.
Who acts: ring, couple, people · What happens: be, mean, wonder, marry · To what, where: wedding · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ring, couple, people), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | ccomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 wedding | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wedding | det |
| 9 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obl |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 couple | det |
| 12 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 together | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 together | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 together | cop |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 means | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 together | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wondered | cc |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wondered | nsubj |
| 21 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | conj |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 marry | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 marry | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 marry | aux |
| 25 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wondered | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
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 | is in a quote | present | ring | about time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | a wedding | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | the couple | time | together property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | people | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | marry | would | people | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:11.
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 ×3. 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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