When someone dies, sentence 16

A sudden death happens without warning, from an accident or a heart attack, so there is no chance to say goodbye; it is rare in young healthy people.

Who acts: sudden death, chance · What happens: happen, be, say · To what, where: accident, goodbye · 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 (sudden death, chance), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 death	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 death	amod
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 warning	case
6	warning	warn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 accident	punct
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 accident	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 accident	det
10	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 attack	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 attack	det
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attack	compound
14	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 accident	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 is	advmod
17	there	there	PRON	_	18 is	expl
18	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happens	parataxis
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 chance	det
20	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 is	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 say	mark
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 chance	acl
23	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 rare	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rare	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 rare	cop
27	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happens	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 people	case
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 people	amod
30	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 people	amod
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 rare	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	present	a sudden death		a accident or a heart attack	without warning	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	no chance		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	no chance not said here	goodbye			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic
4	is	present	chance			in young healthy people; rare property	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:16.

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 ×3. 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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