When a parent has died, sentence 45

People say «Sorry for your loss» because they mean well; you can thank them and change the subject.

Who acts: People, you · What happens: say, mean, thank, change · To what, where: people, subject · 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 (People, you), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Sorry	punct
4	Sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 loss	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 loss	nmod:poss
7	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Sorry	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Sorry	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 mean	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mean	nsubj
11	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	advcl
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 mean	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 thank	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 thank	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 thank	aux
16	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thank	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 change	cc
19	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 thank	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 subject	det
21	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 change	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	People				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	people			well property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank	can	you		people		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	change	infinitive	you not said here	the subject			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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:45.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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