When a parent has died, sentence 21
I never knew her.» Both missing and not knowing how to miss are okay.
Who acts: I, missing · What happens: not know, miss, be · To what, where: Mum · 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 (I, missing), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 knew | advmod |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 7 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 missing | advmod |
| 8 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 okay | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knowing | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 knowing | advmod |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 missing | conj |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 miss | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 miss | mark |
| 14 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knowing | ccomp |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 okay | cop |
| 16 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 okay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | I | Mum | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | gerund | missing not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | miss in a quote | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | missing | okay property | tree rules |
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:21.
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, R6-punct-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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