Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 18

In Glasgow, Elsie didn't get to say goodbye to her granny in hospital, so she writes her a letter and leaves it on the grave.

Who acts: Elsie · What happens: not get, say, write, leave · To what, where: Glasgow, goodbye, granny, letter, grave · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Elsie), 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 Glasgow	case
2	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Elsie	punct
4	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	xcomp
10	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 granny	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 granny	nmod:poss
13	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 hospital	case
15	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 granny	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 writes	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 writes	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 writes	nsubj
19	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 get	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 writes	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 letter	det
22	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 writes	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 leaves	cc
24	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 writes	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 leaves	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 grave	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grave	det
28	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leaves	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not get	past · do-support	Elsie			Glasgow	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Elsie not said here	goodbye	Elsie's granny in hospital		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic to granny=Recipient
3	write	present	Elsie	a letter	Glasgow		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient letter=Topic
4	leave	present	Elsie not said here	letter		the grave	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on grave=Location

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:18.

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. 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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