Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 17

People grieve in different ways and at different times; tears might come weeks later, or not at all.

Who acts: People, tears · What happens: grieve, come · To what, where: different ways

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 (People, tears), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grieve	nsubj
2	grieve	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ways	case
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ways	amod
5	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grieve	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 times	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 times	case
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 times	amod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ways	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
11	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 come	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grieve	parataxis
14	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 later	obl:unmarked
15	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 come	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 not	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 not	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 grieve	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 not	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grieve	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	present	People			different ways and different times			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	come	might	tears					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:17.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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