When a parent has died, sentence 49
Fear after a loss is normal, and small, slow steps help.
Who acts: Fear, slow steps · What happens: be, help
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 (Fear, slow steps), 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 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 normal | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 loss | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 loss | det |
| 4 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fear | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 normal | cop |
| 6 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 help | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 small | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 small | cc |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 normal | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 11 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 steps | amod |
| 12 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 help | nsubj |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 normal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Fear after a loss | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Fear after a loss not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | help | present | slow steps | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:49.
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): 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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