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title: In London, Kwesi's uncle comes from Ghana for a wedding wearing kent… — Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row no… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncle
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# Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 8

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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).

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**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

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:8
# text = 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).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Kwesi	Kwesi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ghana	Ghana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	wearing	wearing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
14	kente	kente	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	dances	dance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	Kwesi	Kwesi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
34	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	drip	drip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	parataxis	_	_
40	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
41	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
42	drip	drip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	_
44	stylish	stylish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	43	obj	_	_
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | 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 |

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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): 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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