When someone dies, sentence 6
It comes and goes like waves, and people show it in many ways, from tears to casseroles on the doorstep.
Who acts: sadness, people · What happens: come, go, show · To what, where: sadness
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 (sadness, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 goes | cc |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 comes | conj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 waves | case |
| 6 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 goes | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 show | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 show | cc |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 show | nsubj |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 comes | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 show | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 ways | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ways | amod |
| 14 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 show | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tears | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 tears | case |
| 17 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ways | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 casseroles | case |
| 19 | casseroles | casserole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tears | nmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 doorstep | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 doorstep | det |
| 22 | doorstep | doorstep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 casseroles | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | sadness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | present | sadness not said here | like waves | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | present | people | sadness | in many ways and tears to casseroles on the doorstep | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in way=Topic |
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:6.
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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