Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 27

In Cork, at Granda's wake (a gathering at home to remember the person, often with the coffin there), people tell funny stories: «He was some craic» (Irish for great fun).

Who acts: people, family · What happens: remember, tell, be · To what, where: person, funny stories, Cork, craic · 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 (people, family), 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 Cork	case
2	Cork	Cork	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 tell	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wake	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 wake	case
5	Granda	Granda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wake	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Granda	case
7	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	obl
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 gathering	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gathering	det
10	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wake	appos
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gathering	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 remember	mark
14	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 gathering	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remember	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 coffin	punct
18	often	often	ADV	_	21 coffin	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 coffin	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 coffin	det
21	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 person	conj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 coffin	advmod
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 gathering	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tell	nsubj
26	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stories	amod
28	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tell	obj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	34 craic	punct
31	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 craic	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 craic	cop
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 craic	det
34	craic	craic	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stories	appos
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	34 craic	punct
36	(	(	PUNCT	_	37 Irish	punct
37	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 craic	amod
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 fun	case
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 fun	amod
40	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Irish	obl
41	)	)	PUNCT	_	37 Irish	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	to-infinitive	people not said here	the person and the coffin			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	people	funny stories	Cork	at Granda's wake	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	past	family	some craic			tree rules

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:27.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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