When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 17
"She's not herself" means someone is behaving differently than usual, from illness, worry, grief or medicine; grown-ups say it to be kind and private.
Who acts: Dementia, someone, grown ups · What happens: not be, mean, behave, grow, say, be · To what, where: Dementia, illness, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» 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 (Dementia, someone, grown ups), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 herself | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 herself | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 herself | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 herself | advmod |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 means | ccomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 herself | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 behaving | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 behaving | aux |
| 10 | behaving | behave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 means | ccomp |
| 11 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 10 behaving | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 usual | case |
| 13 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 behaving | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 illness | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 illness | case |
| 16 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 behaving | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 worry | punct |
| 18 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 illness | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grief | punct |
| 20 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 illness | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 medicine | cc |
| 22 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 illness | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 grown | punct |
| 24 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 ups | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 ups | punct |
| 26 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 say | nsubj |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | parataxis |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 say | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 kind | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 kind | cop |
| 31 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 say | xcomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 private | cc |
| 33 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 kind | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | Dementia | Dementia | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | behave | present · progressive | someone | illness and worry and grief or medicine | differently, usual property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | grown ups | name | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | grown ups not said here | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | grown ups not said here | tree rules |
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:adult-life:023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.lesson:17.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.
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