Funerals and remembering, sentence 19

Families sometimes pay for a bench, tree or plaque in a place the person loved; sitting on a memorial bench is fine, that is what it is for.

Who acts: Families, person, sitting, that · What happens: pay, love, sit, be · To what, where: place, memorial bench

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 (Families, person, sitting, that), 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	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pay	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	3 pay	advmod
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 fine	parataxis
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 bench	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bench	det
6	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tree	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bench	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 plaque	cc
10	plaque	plaque	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bench	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 place	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 place	det
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 loved	nsubj
16	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 place	acl:relcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 fine	punct
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 fine	csubj
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 bench	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bench	det
21	memorial	memorial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bench	amod
22	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	obl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fine	cop
24	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 what	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 what	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 what	cop
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 fine	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 is	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 what	cop
31	for	for	ADP	_	28 what	case
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pay	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	infinitive	Families		a place	for a bench and tree or plaque; sometimes property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bench=Theme
2	love	past	the person	a place not said here			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund			a memorial bench		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
4	is	present	sitting			fine property	tree rules
5	is	present	that				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:19.

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, R6-punct-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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