Funerals and remembering, sentence 15
Many families visit graves to remember someone, tidy the spot and leave flowers; talking to the person there is normal.
Who acts: Many families, talking · What happens: visit, remember, tidy, leave, talk, be · To what, where: graves, someone, spot, flowers
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 (Many families, talking), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 families | amod |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 visit | nsubj |
| 3 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 visit | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 remember | mark |
| 6 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 visit | advcl |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 remember | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tidy | punct |
| 9 | tidy | tidy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 remember | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spot | det |
| 11 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tidy | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 leave | cc |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 visit | conj |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leave | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 16 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 is | csubj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 person | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 person | det |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 talking | obl |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 visit | parataxis |
| 22 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 is | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 visit | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present | Many families | graves | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | remember | to-infinitive | Many families not said here | someone | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tidy | infinitive | Many families not said here | the spot | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | Many families not said here | flowers | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||||
| 5 | talk | gerund | to the person | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to person=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | be | present | talking | there | normal property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:15.
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): 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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