When a parent has died, sentence 16

Dad digs out an old video of Mam singing at a barbecue, badly, and they watch it together and cry and laugh.

Who acts: Dad, old video, children · What happens: dig out, sing, watch, cry, laugh · To what, where: old video, barbecue, video

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 (Dad, old video, children), 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	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 digs	nsubj
2	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 digs	compound:prt
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 video	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 video	amod
6	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 digs	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Mam	case
8	Mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 video	nmod
9	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 video	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 barbecue	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 barbecue	det
12	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 badly	punct
14	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 singing	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 watch	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 watch	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 watch	nsubj
18	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 digs	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 watch	obj
20	together	together	ADV	_	18 watch	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cry	cc
22	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 watch	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 laugh	cc
24	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 cry	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 digs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dig out	present	Dad	a old video of Mam			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent video=Theme
2	sing speech: express	gerund	a old video of Mam not said here		a barbecue	badly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at barbecue=Location
3	watch	present	children = child	video		together property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	cry speech: express	present	children = child not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	laugh	present	children = child not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:16.

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, 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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