Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 8
In London, Kwesi's uncle comes from Ghana for a wedding wearing kente, a bright woven cloth, and dances all night; Kwesi's mates see the photos: «Your uncle's drip is crazy» (drip means stylish clothes).
Who acts: uncle, wedding, mates, drip · What happens: come, wearing, weave, dance, see, be · To what, where: London, kente, photos, stylish clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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 (uncle, wedding, mates, drip), 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 London | case |
| 2 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 London | punct |
| 4 | Kwesi | Kwesi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Kwesi | case |
| 6 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | nsubj |
| 7 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Ghana | case |
| 9 | Ghana | Ghana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 wedding | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wedding | det |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | obl |
| 13 | wearing | wearing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 wedding | acl |
| 14 | kente | kente | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wearing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cloth | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cloth | det |
| 17 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cloth | amod |
| 18 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 cloth | amod |
| 19 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kente | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dances | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dances | cc |
| 22 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 comes | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dances | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 26 | Kwesi | Kwesi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 mates | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Kwesi | case |
| 28 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 see | nsubj |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 comes | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 photos | det |
| 31 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 see | obj |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 « | punct |
| 33 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 39 crazy | punct |
| 34 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 35 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 drip | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 uncle | case |
| 37 | drip | drip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 crazy | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 crazy | cop |
| 39 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 see | parataxis |
| 40 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 39 crazy | punct |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 means | punct |
| 42 | drip | drip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 means | nsubj |
| 43 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 crazy | parataxis |
| 44 | stylish | stylish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 clothes | amod |
| 45 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 43 means | obj |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 means | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Kwesi's uncle | London | from Ghana; for a wedding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ghana=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | wearing | gerund | a wedding not said here | kente and a bright woven cloth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | weave | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | dance | present | Kwesi's uncle not said here | night | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | present | Kwesi's mates | the photos | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | Your uncle's drip | crazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | drip | stylish clothes | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Topic | ||||
| 8 | drip in a quote | Your uncle | nom drip «event transitive»: poss=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:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:8.
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): 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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