Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 34
Dementia often affects the newest memories first, so a person may remember long ago better than this morning.
Who acts: Dementia, person · What happens: affect, remember · To what, where: newest memories
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, person), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 affects | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 affects | advmod |
| 3 | affects | affect | 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 affects | obj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 affects | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remember | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 remember | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remember | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 remember | aux |
| 13 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 affects | parataxis |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 ago | advmod |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 13 remember | advmod |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 remember | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 morning | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 morning | det |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 better | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 affects | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed hedge=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | present | Dementia | the newest memories | first, often property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus memory=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | remember | may | a person | ago, well property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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:34.
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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