When someone dies, sentence 18
A widow is a woman whose husband has died, and a widower is a man whose wife has died.
Who acts: widow, husband, widower, wife · What happens: be, die · To what, where: woman, man
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 (widow, husband, widower, wife), 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 | 2 widow | det |
| 2 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 woman | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 woman | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 died | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 died | aux |
| 9 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 woman | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 man | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 widower | det |
| 13 | widower | widower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 woman | conj |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 died | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 died | aux |
| 20 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a widow | a woman and a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | present · perfect | husband | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a widower | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | present · perfect | wife | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:18.
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): R2-punct-next ×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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/18/