Funerals and remembering, sentence 9

Children are usually welcome at funerals; many say later they were glad they went, and a grown-up should look after them during it.

Who acts: Children, many, a · What happens: be, say, go, grow up, look · To what, where: funerals · 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 (Children, many, a), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 welcome	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 welcome	cop
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 welcome	advmod
4	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 funerals	case
6	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 welcome	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 welcome	parataxis
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 glad	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 glad	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 glad	cop
13	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	ccomp
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 glad	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 look	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 look	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 look	nsubj
19	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 a	acl
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 up	punct
21	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grown	compound:prt
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 look	aux
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	parataxis
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 look	obl
26	during	during	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 look	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 welcome	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Children	funerals		usually, welcome property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	many				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Children = child			glad, late property	tree rules
4	go	past	Children = child				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grow up	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	look	should	a		after Children = child; during funeral		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:9.

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): R4-particle ×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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