When a parent has died, sentence 13
All of it is normal, and talking helps; charities such as Winston's Wish help grieving children in the UK.
Who acts: All, charities · What happens: be, talk, help, grieve · To what, where: grieving children, UK
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 (All, charities), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 normal | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 normal | cop |
| 5 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 helps | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 helps | cc |
| 8 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 helps | nsubj |
| 9 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 normal | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 charities | punct |
| 11 | charities | charity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 help | nsubj |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 Wish | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 such | fixed |
| 14 | Winston | Winston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Wish | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Winston | case |
| 16 | Wish | wish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 charities | nmod |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 normal | parataxis |
| 18 | grieving | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 children | amod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 help | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 UK | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 UK | det |
| 22 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 children | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 normal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | All | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | help | present | charities such Winston's Wish | grieving children | the UK | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | grieve | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:13.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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