When someone dies, sentence 1
When a person dies, their body stops working for ever; it is not sleep, and they do not come back.
Who acts: person, body, they · What happens: die, stop, work, not be, not come back · To what, where: sleep
This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» 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 (person, body, they), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 dies | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dies | nsubj |
| 4 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stops | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dies | punct |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 body | nmod:poss |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stops | nsubj |
| 8 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stops | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 ever | case |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 working | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 stops | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sleep | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sleep | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 sleep | advmod |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stops | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 come | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 come | advmod |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sleep | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | a person | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | stop | present | their body | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | work | gerund | their body not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ever=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | not is a | present | body | sleep | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not come back | present · do-support | they | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:024-when-someone-dies.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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