A new baby in the house, sentence 10
A christening is a church ceremony where a baby is welcomed into the Christian church and given its names, with water on its head.
Who acts: christening · What happens: be, welcome, give, name · To what, where: church ceremony, baby, Christian church, names
This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby in the house» 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 (christening), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 christening | det |
| 2 | christening | christening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ceremony | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ceremony | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ceremony | det |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ceremony | compound |
| 6 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 welcomed | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 baby | det |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 11 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ceremony | acl:relcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 church | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 church | det |
| 14 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 church | amod |
| 15 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 welcomed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 given | cc |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 welcomed | conj |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 names | nmod:poss |
| 19 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 given | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 water | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 names | nmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 water | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ceremony | 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 | a christening | a church ceremony | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | welcome | present · passive | a baby | the Christian church | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | christening's names | with water on christening's head | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 4 | name | christening | with water on christening's head | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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:019-a-new-baby-in-the-house.lesson:10.
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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