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title: Picture a wedding in Galway: Auntie Siobhan giggles that she is "a b… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a wedding in Galway: Auntie Siobhan giggles that she is "a bit tipsy", Uncle Pat says he'll "just have the one" and has three, and the next morning Dad lies in a dark room asking everyone to whisper. Who acts: you, Auntie, Uncle, Dad. A sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» 
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# Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 2

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Picture a wedding in Galway: Auntie Siobhan giggles that she is "a bit tipsy", Uncle Pat says he'll "just have the one" and has three, and the next morning Dad lies in a dark room asking everyone to whisper.

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**Who acts:** you, Auntie, Uncle, Dad, everyone · **What happens:** picture, giggle, be, say, have, lie · **To what, where:** wedding, Galway, one, three, dark room, everyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the adult life 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 (you, Auntie, Uncle, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson:2
# text = Picture a wedding in Galway: Auntie Siobhan giggles that she is "a bit tipsy", Uncle Pat says he'll "just have the one" and has three, and the next morning Dad lies in a dark room asking everyone to whisper.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2
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	_	5	case	_	_
5	Galway	Galway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Siobhan	Siobhan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	giggles	giggle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	tipsy	tipsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
19	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	Pat	Pat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:det
36	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:amod
37	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:compound
38	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:acl
45	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	44	obj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	whisper	whisper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a wedding |  | Galway |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme |
| 2 | **giggle** | present | Auntie |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Auntie |  |  |  |  | a bit *obl:unmarked*; tipsy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Uncle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | future | Uncle | the one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | present | Uncle *not said here* | three |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient |
| 7 | **lie** | present | Dad |  |  | a dark room | morning |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Dad *not said here* | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **whisper** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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 ×5, R6-punct-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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