Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 39

People grieve in different ways; not crying at a funeral doesn't mean you don't care.

Who acts: People, crying, you · What happens: grieve, not cry, not mean, not care · To what, where: different ways, funeral · 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, crying, you), 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	VerbForm=Inf	14 mean	parataxis
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	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 crying	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 crying	advmod
8	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 mean	csubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 funeral	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 funeral	det
11	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crying	obl
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 mean	advmod
14	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 care	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 care	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 care	advmod
18	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 mean	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grieve	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	grieve	infinitive	People	different ways	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	not cry speech: express	gerund		a funeral	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location
3	not mean	present · do-support	crying		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not care	present · do-support	you		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:39.

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): R6-punct-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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