Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 1

Eating together is shared, so you wait until everyone is seated and served before you start, unless the host says "Start".

Who acts: Eating, you, host · What happens: eat, share, wait, seat, serve, start · To what, where: everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» 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 (Eating, you, host), 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	Eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 shared	csubj
2	together	together	ADV	_	1 Eating	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shared	aux:pass
4	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 wait	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 wait	nsubj
8	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shared	parataxis
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 seated	mark
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 seated	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 seated	aux:pass
12	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wait	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 served	cc
14	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seated	conj
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 start	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 start	nsubj
17	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 seated	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 start	punct
19	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	22 says	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 host	det
21	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 says	nsubj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wait	advcl
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Start	punct
24	Start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 says	ccomp
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Start	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shared	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund			together property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	share	present · passive	Eating			tree rules
3	wait	present	you			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seat	present · passive		everyone		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
5	serve	participle				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
6	start	present	you			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	the host			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	start in a quote	infinitive				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:1.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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