When someone dies, sentence 17

When someone dies, neighbours and friends often bring food, so the family does not have to cook; it is a practical way of saying "we care".

Who acts: someone, neighbours, family, food, practical way, we · What happens: die, bring, not have, cook, be, say · To what, where: food, practical way · 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 (someone, neighbours, family, food), 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	_	3 dies	mark
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 dies	nsubj
3	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bring	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dies	punct
5	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bring	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 friends	cc
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 neighbours	conj
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 bring	advmod
9	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	17 have	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 family	det
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	nsubj
15	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 have	advmod
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bring	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cook	mark
19	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 have	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 bring	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 way	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 way	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 way	det
24	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 way	amod
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	parataxis
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 saying	mark
27	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 way	acl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 care	punct
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 care	nsubj
30	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 saying	ccomp
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 care	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bring	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	present	someone			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	bring	present	neighbours and friends	food	often property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	not have	present · do-support	the family			tree rules
4	cook	to-infinitive	the family not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	present	food	a practical way		tree rules
6	say speech: assert	gerund	a practical way not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	care in a quote	present	we			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: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): 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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