Funerals and remembering, sentence 10

A wake is a gathering after a funeral where people eat, drink and share stories; laughing there does not mean nobody is sad.

Who acts: wake, people, laughing, nobody · What happens: be, eat, drink, share, laugh, not mean · To what, where: gathering, stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Funerals and remembering» 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 (wake, people, laughing, nobody), 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 wake	det
2	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathering	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gathering	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gathering	det
5	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 funeral	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 funeral	det
8	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathering	nmod
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 eat	advmod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	nsubj
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 funeral	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drink	punct
13	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 share	cc
15	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	conj
16	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 share	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 mean	punct
18	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 mean	csubj
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 laughing	advmod
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mean	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 mean	advmod
22	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gathering	parataxis
23	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 sad	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sad	cop
25	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mean	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gathering	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a wake	a gathering		after a funeral		tree rules
2	eat	present	people					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	present	people not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	share	present	people not said here	stories				tree rules
5	laugh	gerund			there			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not mean	present · do-support	laughing					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	nobody				sad property	tree rules

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:025-funerals-and-remembering.lesson:10.

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, R3-conj-first ×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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