When a parent has died, sentence 39
When someone dies, they do not come back; the sadness people feel after a death is called grief.
Who acts: someone, friends, people · What happens: die, not come back, feel, call · To what, where: death, sadness · 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 (someone, friends, people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 dies | advmod |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 dies | nsubj |
| 3 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dies | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 come | advmod |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sadness | det |
| 12 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 feel | nsubj |
| 14 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sadness | acl:relcl |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 called | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 death | det |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feel | obl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 called | aux:pass |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 come | parataxis |
| 20 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | someone | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | not come back | present · do-support | friends = friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | people | a death | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | the sadness | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:39.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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