The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 19
In February 2024 the Palace announced that the King had a form of cancer, found while he was in hospital for a smaller problem, and was having treatment; the type was not made public.
Who acts: Palace, King · What happens: announce, have, find, be, not make, form · To what, where: form, hospital, treatment, type, 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 (Palace, King), 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 February | case |
| 2 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 announced | obl |
| 3 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 February | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Palace | det |
| 5 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 announced | nsubj |
| 6 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 announced | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 form | det |
| 12 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cancer | case |
| 14 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 form | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 had | conj |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 hospital | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hospital | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hospital | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hospital | case |
| 21 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 problem | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 problem | det |
| 24 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 problem | amod |
| 25 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hospital | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 having | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 having | cc |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 having | aux |
| 29 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 had | conj |
| 30 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 having | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 made | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 type | det |
| 33 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 made | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 made | aux:pass |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 made | advmod |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 announced | parataxis |
| 37 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 made | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | the Palace | february | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the King | a form of cancer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | participle | the King not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | King | hospital | for a smaller problem | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | past · progressive | the King not said here | treatment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not make | past · passive | the type | public property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 7 | form | cancer | nom form «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:19.
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): 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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