Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 12
In Toronto, Marisol visits Grandma in a care home that smells of disinfectant and gravy; Grandma is sleepy, and Marisol doesn't want to go back.
Who acts: Marisol, care home, Grandma · What happens: visit, smell, be, not want, go back · To what, where: Grandma, Toronto
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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 (Marisol, care home, Grandma), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Toronto | case |
| 2 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 visits | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Toronto | punct |
| 4 | Marisol | Marisol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 visits | nsubj |
| 5 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Grandma | Grandma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 visits | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 home | det |
| 9 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 home | compound |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 visits | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 smells | nsubj |
| 12 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 home | acl:relcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 disinfectant | case |
| 14 | disinfectant | disinfectant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smells | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gravy | cc |
| 16 | gravy | gravy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 disinfectant | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sleepy | punct |
| 18 | Grandma | Grandma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sleepy | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sleepy | cop |
| 20 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 visits | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 want | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 want | cc |
| 23 | Marisol | Marisol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 want | nsubj |
| 24 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 want | aux |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 want | advmod |
| 26 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 visits | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 want | xcomp |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 visits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present | Marisol | Grandma | Toronto | in a care home | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | smell | present | a care home | of disinfectant and gravy | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of disinfectant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Grandma | sleepy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not want | present · do-support | Marisol | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | Marisol not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:12.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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