When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 16

Dementia is an illness that damages memory and thinking; a person may forget names but often still responds to a loved voice, a hug or an old song.

Who acts: Dementia, illness, person · What happens: be, damage, forget, respond, love · To what, where: illness, memory, names

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 (Dementia, illness, person), 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	Dementia	Dementia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 illness	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 illness	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 illness	det
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 damages	nsubj
6	damages	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 illness	acl:relcl
7	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 damages	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thinking	cc
9	thinking	think	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 memory	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 forget	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 person	det
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forget	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 forget	aux
14	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 illness	parataxis
15	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 forget	obj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 responds	cc
17	often	often	ADV	_	19 responds	advmod
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 responds	advmod
19	responds	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 forget	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 voice	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 voice	det
22	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 voice	amod
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 responds	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hug	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hug	det
26	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 voice	conj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 song	cc
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 song	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 song	amod
30	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hug	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 illness	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dementia	a illness			tree rules
2	damage	present	a illness	memory and thinking			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient
3	forget	may	a person	names			tree rules
4	respond speech: other	present	a person not said here		still	to a loved voice and a hug or a old song; often property	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme
5	love	participle					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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:16.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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