The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 14
In March 2021 they gave a TV interview to Oprah Winfrey and spoke of a hurtful remark by a family member they did not name; the Palace replied that «some recollections may vary» and that the family would deal with it privately.
Who acts: weddings, Palace, recollections, family, family member · What happens: give, speak, not name, reply, vary, deal · To what, where: TV interview, Oprah, family member · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (weddings, Palace, recollections, family), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 March | case |
| 2 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 3 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 March | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 interview | det |
| 7 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 interview | compound |
| 8 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Oprah | case |
| 10 | Oprah | Oprah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 interview | nmod |
| 11 | Winfrey | Winfrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Oprah | flat |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spoke | cc |
| 13 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 remark | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 remark | det |
| 16 | hurtful | hurtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 remark | amod |
| 17 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spoke | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 member | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 member | det |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 member | compound |
| 21 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 remark | nmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 name | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 name | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 name | advmod |
| 25 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 member | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 replied | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Palace | det |
| 28 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 replied | nsubj |
| 29 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 vary | mark |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 35 vary | punct |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 recollections | det |
| 33 | recollections | recollection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 vary | nsubj |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 vary | aux |
| 35 | vary | vary | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 replied | ccomp |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 35 vary | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 deal | cc |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 deal | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 family | det |
| 40 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 deal | nsubj |
| 41 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 deal | aux |
| 42 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 vary | conj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 deal | obl |
| 45 | privately | privately | ADV | _ | 42 deal | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | weddings = wedding | a TV interview | Oprah | march | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent interview=Theme to oprah=Recipient | ||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | weddings = wedding not said here | of a hurtful remark by a family member | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not name | past · do-support | weddings = wedding | a family member not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the Palace | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | vary in a quote | may | some recollections | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | deal | would | the family | with Palace; privately property | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | remark | a family member | nom remark «communication transitive»: by=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:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:14.
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, 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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