When a parent has died, sentence 38
Grief doesn't vanish, but bit by bit it gets easier to carry.
Who acts: Grief · What happens: not vanish, get, carry
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 (Grief), 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 | Grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vanish | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanish | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 vanish | advmod |
| 4 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bit | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 bit | cc |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 easier | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 bit | case |
| 9 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 easier | obl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 easier | nsubj |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanish | conj |
| 12 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 gets | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 easier | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vanish | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not vanish | present · do-support | Grief | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | present | Grief not said here | easy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | Grief not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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:38.
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 ×2. 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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