Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 12

The best man is usually the groom's closest friend or brother; he helps on the day and makes a speech, which makes many people nervous.

Who acts: best man, man, speech · What happens: be, help, make · To what, where: closest friend, speech, many people

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 (best man, man, speech), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 friend	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 friend	cop
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 friend	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 groom	det
7	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 friend	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 groom	case
9	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 friend	amod
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 brother	cc
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 friend	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 helps	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 helps	nsubj
15	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 friend	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 day	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 helps	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 makes	cc
20	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 helps	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 speech	det
22	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 makes	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 makes	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 makes	nsubj
25	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 speech	acl:relcl
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 people	amod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 makes	obj
28	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 makes	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 friend	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best man	the groom's closest friend or brother		usually property	tree rules
2	help	present	man		day		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	make	present	man not said here	a speech			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product
4	make	present	a speech	many people		nervous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

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:12.

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): no change. 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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