When a parent has died, sentence 1
The sadness that follows is called grief, and it doesn't go in a straight line.
Who acts: sadness · What happens: follow, call, not go · To what, where: sadness, straight line · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» 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 (sadness), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sadness | det |
| 2 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 follows | nsubj |
| 4 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sadness | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 go | advmod |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 called | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 line | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 line | det |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 line | amod |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | the sadness | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | the sadness | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | not go | present · do-support | sadness | a straight line | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in line=Location |
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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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