When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 12
Not crying at a funeral does not mean you did not love the person; everyone grieves differently.
Who acts: crying, you, everyone · What happens: not cry, not mean, not love, grieve · To what, where: funeral, person · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief» of the reflection 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 (crying, you, everyone), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 crying | advmod |
| 2 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 mean | csubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 funeral | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 funeral | det |
| 5 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crying | obl |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 mean | advmod |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 love | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 love | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 love | advmod |
| 12 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mean | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 grieves | punct |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 grieves | nsubj |
| 17 | grieves | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | parataxis |
| 18 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 17 grieves | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cry speech: express | gerund | a funeral | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location | |||||
| 2 | not mean | present · do-support | crying | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not love | past · do-support | you | the person | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | grieve | present | everyone | differently property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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