More greetings and making introductions, sentence 0
Many families greet in their own way: "Namaste" with palms pressed together is a respectful Indian and Nepali greeting, and "As-salamu alaykum", peace be upon you, is a Muslim greeting answered with "Wa alaykum as-salam" or simply hello.
Who acts: Many families, Namaste · What happens: greet, press, be, answer · To what, where: own way, palms, respectful Indian greeting, Muslim greeting
This is a sentence of the lesson «More greetings and making introductions» of the everyday 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 (Many families, Namaste), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 families | amod |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 greet | nsubj |
| 3 | greet | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 greet | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Namaste | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Namaste | punct |
| 10 | Namaste | namaste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 greeting | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Namaste | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 palms | case |
| 13 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Namaste | nmod |
| 14 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 palms | acl |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 pressed | advmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 greeting | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 greeting | det |
| 18 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 greeting | amod |
| 19 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 greeting | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 greeting | cc |
| 21 | Nepali | nepali | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Indian | conj |
| 22 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 greet | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 alaykum | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 alaykum | cc |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 alaykum | punct |
| 26 | As | as | ADP | _ | 29 alaykum | case |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 As | punct |
| 28 | salamu | salamu | X | _ | 29 alaykum | compound |
| 29 | alaykum | alaykum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 greeting | appos |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 alaykum | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Indian | punct |
| 32 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Namaste | nmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 peace | acl:relcl |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 you | case |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 be | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 greeting | punct |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 greeting | cop |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 greeting | det |
| 39 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 greeting | amod |
| 40 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 greet | parataxis |
| 41 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 greeting | acl:relcl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 alaykum | case |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 Wa | punct |
| 44 | Wa | Wa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 alaykum | compound |
| 45 | alaykum | alaykum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 answered | obl |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 salam | case |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 as | punct |
| 48 | salam | salam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 alaykum | nmod |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 salam | punct |
| 50 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 simply | cc |
| 51 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 48 salam | advmod |
| 52 | hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 51 simply | discourse |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 greet | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | present | Many families | families's own way | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | press | participle | palms not said here | together property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Namaste with palms peace | a respectful Indian greeting | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a Muslim greeting | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | participle | a Muslim greeting not said here | with Wa alaykum as salam | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson:0.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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