When someone dies, sentence 14
Grief gets gentler over months and years; playing and laughing during that time does not mean you have forgotten the person.
Who acts: Grief, playing, you · What happens: get, play, laugh, not mean, forget · To what, where: person · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Grief, playing, you), 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 | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gentler | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 gets | xcomp |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 months | case |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gentler | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 years | cc |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 months | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
| 9 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 mean | csubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 laughing | cc |
| 11 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 playing | conj |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laughing | obl |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 mean | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 mean | advmod |
| 17 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 forgotten | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 forgotten | aux |
| 20 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 mean | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 person | det |
| 22 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forgotten | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Grief | gentle property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | play | gerund | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | time | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not mean | present · do-support | playing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | forget | present · perfect | you | the person | 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:024-when-someone-dies.lesson:14.
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, 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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