The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 24
«A royal source says» is a nameless claim that can be right, wrong or made up; it is not the same as the person saying it.
Who acts: royal source, nameless claim, source, person · What happens: say, be, make up, not be · To what, where: nameless claim, source · 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 (royal source, nameless claim, source, person), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 source | det |
| 3 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 source | amod |
| 4 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 claim | parataxis |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 claim | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 claim | det |
| 9 | nameless | nameless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 claim | amod |
| 10 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 right | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 right | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 right | cop |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 claim | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrong | punct |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 right | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 right | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 made | compound:prt |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 same | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 same | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 same | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 same | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 same | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 claim | parataxis |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 person | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 person | det |
| 28 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 same | obl |
| 29 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 person | acl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saying | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 claim | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | a royal source | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be speech: other | present | a nameless claim | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | can | a nameless claim | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | a nameless claim not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | make up | participle | a nameless claim not said here | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not is | present | source | as the person; same property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | gerund | the person not said here | source | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:24.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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