When someone dies, sentence 4

The doctors say it's weeks, not months." Later he cries, and it is the first time you have seen him cry.

Who acts: doctors, room, Grandad, you · What happens: say, be, cry, see · To what, where: weeks, first time, Grandad · 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 (doctors, room, Grandad, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doctors	det
2	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cries	parataxis
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 weeks	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weeks	cop
6	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 months	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 months	advmod
9	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 weeks	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Later	punct
12	Later	later	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 cries	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cries	nsubj
14	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 time	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 time	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 time	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 time	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cries	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 seen	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 time	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	obj
26	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seen	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the doctors			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	room	weeks and months		tree rules
3	cry speech: express in a quote	present	Grandad		later property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	room	the first time		tree rules
5	see in a quote	present · perfect	you	Grandad		tree rules
6	cry speech: express in a quote	infinitive	Grandad not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:4.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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