When someone dies, sentence 13
Grief, the sadness after someone dies, comes in waves: fine one day and terrible the next, sometimes set off by a song or a smell.
Who acts: someone, Grief · What happens: die, come, set off · To what, where: waves
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 (someone, Grief), 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 | Grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sadness | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sadness | det |
| 4 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Grief | appos |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 dies | mark |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 dies | nsubj |
| 7 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sadness | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 comes | punct |
| 9 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 waves | case |
| 11 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 comes | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 fine | punct |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 comes | parataxis |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 day | nummod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fine | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 terrible | cc |
| 17 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fine | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 next | det |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 terrible | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 21 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 set | advmod |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fine | parataxis |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 set | compound:prt |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 song | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 song | det |
| 26 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 smell | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 smell | det |
| 29 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 song | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | someone | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | come | present | Grief | waves | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location | ||||
| 3 | set off | participle | by a song or a smell; sometimes property | 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:13.
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 ×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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