Feuds between families, sentence 31
Sad events like funerals sometimes bring families back together, but it is better not to wait for one.
Who acts: Sad events · What happens: bring, be, not wait · To what, where: families
This is a sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» of the everyday 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 (Sad events), 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 | Sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 events | amod |
| 2 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 funerals | case |
| 4 | funerals | funeral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 events | nmod |
| 5 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 bring | advmod |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 together | advmod |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 better | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 better | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 better | expl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | cop |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 bring | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 wait | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 wait | mark |
| 17 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 better | csubj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 wait | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | 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 | Sad events like funerals | families | sometimes, together property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent family=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | Sad events like funerals not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not wait | to-infinitive | for one | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:31.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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