Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 2
Picture a wedding in a hotel near Galway: your cousin is a bridesmaid in a matching dress, Uncle Dev shakes over his best man's speech, a guest whispers "about time, they've been together for years", and Mum dabs her eyes saying "happy tears".
Who acts: you, cousin, Uncle Dev, guest, couples, Mum · What happens: picture, be, match, shake, whisper, dab · To what, where: wedding, hotel, bridesmaid, matching dress, speech, eyes · 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 (you, cousin, Uncle Dev, guest), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hotel | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hotel | det |
| 6 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wedding | nmod |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 Galway | case |
| 8 | Galway | Galway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hotel | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 bridesmaid | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bridesmaid | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bridesmaid | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bridesmaid | det |
| 14 | bridesmaid | bridesmaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dress | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dress | det |
| 17 | matching | match | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 dress | amod |
| 18 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bridesmaid | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shakes | punct |
| 20 | Uncle | uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Dev | compound |
| 21 | Dev | dev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 shakes | nsubj |
| 22 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bridesmaid | conj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 speech | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 man | nmod:poss |
| 25 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 speech | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 man | case |
| 28 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shakes | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 whispers | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 guest | det |
| 31 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 whispers | nsubj |
| 32 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bridesmaid | conj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 whispers | punct |
| 34 | about | about | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 whispers | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 together | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 together | nsubj |
| 38 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 together | aux |
| 39 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 together | cop |
| 40 | together | together | ADV | _ | 32 whispers | parataxis |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 years | case |
| 42 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 together | obl |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 together | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 dabs | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 dabs | cc |
| 46 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 dabs | nsubj |
| 47 | dabs | dab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bridesmaid | conj |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 49 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 dabs | obj |
| 50 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 dabs | advcl |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 tears | punct |
| 52 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 tears | amod |
| 53 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 saying | obj |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 tears | punct |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a wedding | a hotel near Galway | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | your cousin | a bridesmaid | a matching dress | tree rules | |||
| 3 | match | gerund | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | shake | present | Uncle Dev | Dev's best man's speech | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over speech=Location | ||||
| 5 | whisper speech: assert | present | a guest | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present · perfect | couples = couple | year | together property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | dab | present | Mum | Mum's eyes | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | gerund | Mum not said here | happy tears | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tear=Topic | ||||
| 9 | speak | Dev's best man | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:2.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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