Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 13
Bridesmaids are friends or relatives who help the bride and walk with her, and children can be flower girls or page boys.
Who acts: Bridesmaids, friends, children · What happens: be, help, walk · To what, where: friends, bride, flower girls
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 (Bridesmaids, friends, children), 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 | Bridesmaids | bridesmaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 friends | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 friends | cop |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 relatives | cc |
| 5 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 friends | conj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 help | nsubj |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 friends | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bride | det |
| 9 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walk | cc |
| 11 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walk | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 girls | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 girls | cc |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 girls | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 girls | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 girls | cop |
| 19 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 girls | compound |
| 20 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 friends | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 boys | cc |
| 22 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 boys | compound |
| 23 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 girls | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Bridesmaids | friends or relatives and flower girls or page boys | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | friends or relatives and flower girls or page boys | the bride | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | walk | infinitive | friends or relatives and flower girls or page boys not said here | with bride | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | can | children | flower girls or page boys | 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:13.
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. 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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