The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 12
Meghan's father did not come to the wedding; it was reported he had heart surgery, and Charles, then Prince of Wales, walked her part of the way.
Who acts: father, Charles · What happens: not come, report, have, walk · To what, where: wedding, person, heart surgery, part
This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» 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 (father, Charles), 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 | Meghan | Meghan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Meghan | case |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 come | advmod |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 wedding | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wedding | det |
| 9 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 reported | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reported | aux:pass |
| 13 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 come | parataxis |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reported | ccomp |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 surgery | compound |
| 17 | surgery | surgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 walked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 walked | cc |
| 20 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 walked | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Charles | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 Prince | advmod |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Charles | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Wales | case |
| 25 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Prince | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 walked | punct |
| 27 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reported | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 part | nmod:poss |
| 29 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 walked | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 way | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 way | det |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 part | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | past · do-support | Meghan's father | the wedding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | report | past · passive | person | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | have | past | father | heart surgery | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surgery=Patient | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | Charles | Meghan's part of the way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Trajectory |
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:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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