Big feelings in big people, sentence 14

Loneliness is missing people and company; an old person living alone after a husband or wife has died often feels it, and regular calls and visits help a lot.

Who acts: Loneliness, old person, husband, regular calls · What happens: miss, live, die, feel, help · To what, where: people, loneliness, lot

This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» 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 (Loneliness, old person, husband, regular calls), 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	Loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 missing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 missing	aux
3	missing	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 missing	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 company	cc
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 missing	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 person	amod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 feels	nsubj
11	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 person	acl
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 living	advmod
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 died	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 husband	det
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 died	nsubj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 wife	cc
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 husband	conj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 died	aux
19	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 living	advcl
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 feels	advmod
21	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 missing	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 feels	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 help	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 help	cc
25	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 calls	amod
26	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 help	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 visits	cc
28	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 calls	conj
29	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 feels	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lot	det
31	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 help	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 missing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	miss	present · progressive	Loneliness	people and company		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
2	live	gerund	a old person not said here		alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	present · perfect	a husband or wife			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	feel	present	a old person	loneliness	often property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	help	present	regular calls and visits	a lot		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Beneficiary

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:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:14.

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): R5-strong ×2. 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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