Funerals and remembering, sentence 16
The anniversary of a death often brings the sadness back strongly; families may light a candle, visit the grave or share stories.
Who acts: anniversary, families · What happens: bring, light, visit, share · To what, where: sadness, candle, grave, stories
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 (anniversary, families), 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 anniversary | det |
| 2 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brings | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 death | det |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 anniversary | nmod |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 brings | advmod |
| 7 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sadness | det |
| 9 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brings | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 sadness | advmod |
| 11 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 7 brings | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 brings | punct |
| 13 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 light | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 light | aux |
| 15 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 brings | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 candle | det |
| 17 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 light | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 visit | punct |
| 19 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 light | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 grave | det |
| 21 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 visit | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 share | cc |
| 23 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 light | conj |
| 24 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 share | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | the anniversary of a death | the sadness | often, strongly property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sadness=Theme | |||
| 2 | light | may | families | a candle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product | ||||
| 3 | visit | infinitive | families not said here | the grave | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | share | infinitive | families not said here | stories | 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:16.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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