Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 41
Writing a letter, looking at photos or praying can help someone say goodbye.
Who acts: Writing, someone · What happens: write, look, help, say · To what, where: letter, someone, goodbye · 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 (Writing, someone), 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 | Writing | write | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 help | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Writing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Writing | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 photos | case |
| 7 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looking | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 praying | cc |
| 9 | praying | praying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 photos | conj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 help | aux |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 help | obj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 help | xcomp |
| 14 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 say | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | gerund | a letter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | at photos or praying | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at photo=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | can | Writing | someone | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | someone not said here | goodbye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic |
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:41.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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