The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 18
In September 2024 she announced she had finished chemotherapy, and in January 2025 it was reported that she said she was in remission, meaning there was no sign of the cancer for now.
Who acts: Princess, sign · What happens: announce, finish, report, say, be, mean · To what, where: chemotherapy, remission, cancer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced» 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 (Princess, sign), 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 September | case |
| 2 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 announced | obl |
| 3 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 September | flat |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 announced | nsubj |
| 5 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 finished | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 finished | aux |
| 8 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 announced | ccomp |
| 9 | chemotherapy | chemotherapy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finished | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reported | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reported | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 January | case |
| 13 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 reported | obl |
| 14 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 January | flat |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reported | aux:pass |
| 17 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 announced | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 said | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reported | ccomp |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 remission | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 remission | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 remission | case |
| 24 | remission | remission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 meaning | punct |
| 26 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 said | advcl |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 was | expl |
| 28 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 meaning | ccomp |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 sign | det |
| 30 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 was | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 cancer | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cancer | det |
| 33 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sign | nmod |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 now | case |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 was | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | Princess | september | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | Princess | chemotherapy | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector chemotherapy=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | report | past · passive | chemotherapy | january | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Princess | remission | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mean | gerund | Princess not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | be | past | no sign of the cancer | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | sign | the cancer | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson:18.
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. 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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