Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 9

Being engaged means two people have promised to marry each other, and a ring is often given as a sign of the promise.

Who acts: two people · What happens: engage, mean, promise, marry, give, sign · To what, where: each, ring, promise · 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 (two 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 engaged	aux:pass
2	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 means	csubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 people	nummod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 promised	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 promised	aux
7	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 means	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 marry	mark
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 promised	xcomp
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 marry	obj
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 given	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 given	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ring	det
15	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 given	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 given	aux
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 given	advmod
18	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 means	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 sign	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sign	det
21	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 given	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 promise	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 promise	det
24	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sign	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	engage	gerund · passive				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise	present · perfect	two people			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	two people not said here	each		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient
5	give	present · passive		a ring	as a sign of the promise; often property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	sign			the promise		nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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:9.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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