When someone dies, sentence 3
Picture a living room in Melbourne: Dad sits you down and says, "Grandad is dying.
Who acts: you, Dad, Grandad · What happens: picture, sit down, say, die · To what, where: living room, Melbourne, you · 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 (you, Dad, Grandad), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 room | det |
| 3 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 room | compound |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Melbourne | case |
| 6 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 room | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 sits | punct |
| 8 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sits | nsubj |
| 9 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 sits | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sits | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 says | cc |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sits | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dying | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dying | punct |
| 16 | Grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dying | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dying | aux |
| 18 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 says | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a living room | Melbourne | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent room=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit down | present | Dad | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Dad not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | die in a quote | present · progressive | Grandad | 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:3.
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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