--- title: Meghan's father did not come to the wedding; it was reported he had… — The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move… · tree and pragmatics description: Meghan's father did not come to the wedding; it was reported he had heart surgery, and Charles, then Prince of Wales, walked her part of the way. Who acts: father, Charles. 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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 (father, Charles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:12 # text = Meghan's father did not come to the wedding; it was reported he had heart surgery, and Charles, then Prince of Wales, walked her part of the way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.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 ×1 1 Meghan Meghan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 surgery surgery NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 20 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 23 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:appos 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | Meghan's father | | | the wedding | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **report** | past · passive | | person | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **have** | past | father | heart surgery | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surgery=Patient | | 4 | **walk** | past | Charles | Meghan's part of the way | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Trajectory | 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:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:12`. **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 ×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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