The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 22
In November 2019 Prince Andrew stepped back from public duties after a BBC interview about his friendship with a man convicted of serious crimes.
Who acts: Prince Andrew · What happens: step back, convict · To what, where: public duties, man
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 Andrew), 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 November | case |
| 2 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | obl |
| 3 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 November | flat |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Andrew | compound |
| 5 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | nsubj |
| 6 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 stepped | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 duties | case |
| 9 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 duties | amod |
| 10 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stepped | obl |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 interview | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 interview | det |
| 13 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 interview | compound |
| 14 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | obl |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 friendship | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friendship | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 interview | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 friendship | nmod |
| 21 | convicted | convict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 man | acl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 crimes | case |
| 23 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 crimes | amod |
| 24 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 convicted | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step back | past | Prince Andrew | public duties | after a BBC interview about Andrew's friendship with a man; november | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from duty=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | convict | participle | a man not said here | of serious crimes | 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:22.
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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