When a parent has died, sentence 29
The first Christmas without Da, Cian's family hangs Da's favourite bauble, a wonky robin, right at the front of the tree, and they tell the story of him falling off the ladder in 2019.
Who acts: family, Children, story · What happens: hang, tell, fall off · To what, where: first Christmas, front, story, ladder · 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 (family, Children, story), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Christmas | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 Christmas | amod |
| 3 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hangs | obl |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 Da | case |
| 5 | Da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Christmas | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hangs | punct |
| 7 | Cian | Cian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 family | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Cian | case |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hangs | nsubj |
| 10 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bauble | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Da | case |
| 13 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bauble | amod |
| 14 | bauble | bauble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hangs | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 robin | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 robin | det |
| 17 | wonky | wonky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 robin | amod |
| 18 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bauble | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 robin | punct |
| 20 | right | right | ADV | _ | 23 front | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 front | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 front | det |
| 23 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hangs | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 front | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tell | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tell | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tell | nsubj |
| 30 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hangs | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 story | det |
| 32 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tell | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 story | nmod |
| 35 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 story | acl |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 ladder | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ladder | det |
| 38 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 falling | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 2019 | case |
| 40 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 falling | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | Cian's family | the first Christmas without Da | the front of the tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bauble=Theme at front=Destination | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | Children | the story of family | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fall off | gerund | the story of family not said here | the ladder | in 2019 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ladder=Extent in 2019=Attribute |
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:29.
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 ×5, 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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