More greetings and making introductions, sentence 5
"Namaste" with palms pressed together is a respectful Indian and Nepali greeting.
Who acts: Namaste · What happens: press, be · To what, where: palms, respectful Indian 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Namaste | punct |
| 2 | Namaste | namaste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 greeting | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Namaste | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 palms | case |
| 5 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Namaste | nmod |
| 6 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 palms | acl |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 pressed | advmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 greeting | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 greeting | det |
| 10 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 greeting | amod |
| 11 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 greeting | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Nepali | cc |
| 13 | Nepali | Nepali | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Indian | conj |
| 14 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 greeting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | participle | palms not said here | together property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Namaste with palms | a respectful Indian greeting | 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:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson:5.
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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