When a parent has died, sentence 28
We can be sad together.» Children don't have to protect a grieving parent.
Who acts: We, Children · What happens: be, not have, protect, grieve · To what, where: grieving parent · 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 (We, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sad | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sad | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sad | cop |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 sad | advmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
| 8 | Children | Children | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 have | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sad | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 protect | mark |
| 13 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 parent | det |
| 15 | grieving | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 parent | amod |
| 16 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 protect | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | We | sad, together property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not have in a quote | present · do-support | Children | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | protect in a quote | to-infinitive | Children not said here | a grieving parent | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | grieve in a quote | 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:28.
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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