The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 16
Prince Philip died on 9 April 2021 aged 99, and the Queen sat alone at his funeral because of Covid distancing rules.
Who acts: Prince Philip, Queen · What happens: die, sit, distance · To what, where: 9, funeral
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 (Prince Philip, Queen), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Philip | compound |
| 2 | Philip | Philip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 9 | case |
| 5 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 died | obl |
| 6 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 9 | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 9 | flat |
| 8 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 died | advcl |
| 9 | 99 | 99 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 aged | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sat | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | nsubj |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 died | conj |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 sat | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 funeral | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 funeral | nmod:poss |
| 18 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | obl |
| 19 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 23 rules | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 because | fixed |
| 21 | Covid | Covid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 rules | compound |
| 22 | distancing | distance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 rules | amod |
| 23 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sat | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Prince Philip | 9 April | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the Queen | Philip's funeral | because Covid distancing rules; alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at funeral=Location | |||
| 3 | distance | gerund | tree rules |
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:16.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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