Leap years and 29 February birthdays, sentence 21

An old custom, said to come from Ireland, says a woman may propose marriage on 29 February; today anyone can propose on any day.

Who acts: old custom, woman, anyone · What happens: say, come, propose · To what, where: Ireland, marriage, 29 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Leap years and 29 February birthdays» of the world 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 (old custom, woman, anyone), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 custom	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 custom	amod
3	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 custom	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	xcomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 Ireland	case
9	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 propose	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 propose	aux
15	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	ccomp
16	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 propose	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 29	case
18	29	29	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 propose	obl
19	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 29	nmod:unmarked
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 propose	punct
21	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 propose	obl
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 propose	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 propose	aux
24	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 propose	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 day	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 propose	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a old custom				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	to-infinitive	a old custom not said here		Ireland		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ireland=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	present	a old custom not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	propose	may	a woman	marriage	29 February		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme
5	propose	can	anyone			day; today	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:world:112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays.lesson:21.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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