When a parent has died, sentence 18
Maeve finds Mam's perfume and sprays it on her pillow; it smells like a hug.
Who acts: Maeve, perfume, Mam · What happens: find, spray, smell, perfume · To what, where: perfume, pillow
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 (Maeve, perfume, Mam), 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 | Maeve | Maeve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 finds | nsubj |
| 2 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Mam | mam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 perfume | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Mam | case |
| 5 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 finds | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sprays | cc |
| 7 | sprays | spray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 finds | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sprays | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 pillow | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprays | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 smells | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 smells | nsubj |
| 14 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 finds | parataxis |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 hug | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hug | det |
| 17 | hug | hug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smells | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Maeve | Mam's perfume | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spray | present | Maeve not said here | perfume | Mam's pillow | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on pillow=Destination | |||
| 3 | smell | present | perfume | like a hug | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | perfume | Mam | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: poss=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:18.
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): 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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