What people leave behind, sentence 10
Clearing out a house after a death means sorting the person's things to keep, give to family, sell or give away; it is slow, sad work because every object holds memories.
Who acts: death, object · What happens: clear out, mean, sort, keep, give, sell · To what, where: house, things, family, memories · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» 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 (death, object), 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 | Clearing | clear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 means | csubj |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Clearing | compound:prt |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clearing | obj |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 means | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 death | det |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | sorting | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 means | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 things | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 person | case |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sorting | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sorting | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 keep | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 family | case |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sell | punct |
| 21 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 give | advcl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 give | cc |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sell | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 give | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 slow | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 slow | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 slow | cop |
| 28 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 work | punct |
| 30 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 work | amod |
| 31 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 slow | obl |
| 32 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 holds | mark |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 object | det |
| 34 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 holds | nsubj |
| 35 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 slow | advcl |
| 36 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 holds | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clear out | gerund | a house | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent house=Source | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | a death | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sort | gerund | the person's things | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | family | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to family=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | sell | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | give away | infinitive | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | present | death | sad work obl; slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | hold | present | every object | memories | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=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:026-what-people-leave-behind.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): no change. 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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