Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 3
Dementia often wipes the newest memories first, and the oldest last, so Nan may be seeing little Sarah from forty years ago.
Who acts: Dementia, Nan · What happens: wipe, see · To what, where: newest memories, little Sarah
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 (Dementia, Nan), 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 | Dementia | Dementia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wipes | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 wipes | advmod |
| 3 | wipes | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 memories | det |
| 5 | newest | new | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 memories | amod |
| 6 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wipes | obj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 wipes | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 last | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 last | det |
| 11 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 last | amod |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wipes | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seeing | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 seeing | advmod |
| 15 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seeing | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 seeing | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seeing | aux |
| 18 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 wipes | parataxis |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Sarah | amod |
| 20 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seeing | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 22 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ago | obl |
| 24 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 seeing | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wipes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe | present | Dementia | the newest memories | first, often property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent memory=Source | |||
| 2 | see | may · progressive | Nan | little Sarah | ago property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sarah=Stimulus |
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:3.
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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