--- title: Picture a wedding in a hotel near Galway: your cousin is a bridesmai… — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a wedding in a hotel near Galway: your cousin is a bridesmaid in a matching dress, Uncle Dev shakes over his best man's speech, a guest whispers "about time, they've been together for years", and Mum dabs her eyes saying "happy tears". Who acts: you, cousin, Uncle Dev, guest. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cousin, Uncle Dev, guest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:2 # text = Picture a wedding in a hotel near Galway: your cousin is a bridesmaid in a matching dress, Uncle Dev shakes over his best man's speech, a guest whispers "about time, they've been together for years", and Mum dabs her eyes saying "happy tears". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hotel hotel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 near near ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Galway Galway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bridesmaid bridesmaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 matching match VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 Uncle uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Dev dev PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 shakes shake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 26 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det 31 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 whispers whisper VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 34 about about ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 cop _ _ 40 together together ADV RB _ 32 parataxis _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 dabs dab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 48 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ _ 50 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:acl 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ _ 52 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obj _ _ 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a wedding | | a hotel near Galway | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | your cousin | a bridesmaid | | a matching dress | | | tree rules | | 3 | **match** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **shake** | present | Uncle Dev | | | Dev's best man's speech | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over speech=Location | | 5 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | a guest | | | | time | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | couples *= couple* | | | | year | together *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **dab** | present | Mum | Mum's eyes | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Mum *not said here* | happy tears | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tear=Topic | | 9 | **speak** | | Dev's best man | | | | | | nom speech «communication 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:2`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/1/) - next →: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/)