Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 10
People believe different things about what happens after death, such as heaven or an afterlife or nothing at all; nobody can know for sure, and each family has its own way of thinking about it.
Who acts: People, different things, nobody, family, own way · What happens: believe, happen, know, have, think · To what, where: different things, own way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions» 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 (People, different things, nobody, family), 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 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 believe | obj |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 7 happens | mark |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 happens | nsubj |
| 7 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 things | acl:relcl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 death | case |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happens | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heaven | punct |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 heaven | case |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 things | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 afterlife | cc |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 afterlife | det |
| 16 | afterlife | afterlife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heaven | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 nothing | cc |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 afterlife | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 nothing | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 22 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 know | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 know | aux |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 sure | case |
| 26 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 know | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 has | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 has | cc |
| 29 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 family | det |
| 30 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 has | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | conj |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 way | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 way | amod |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 has | obj |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 36 thinking | mark |
| 36 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 way | acl |
| 37 | about | about | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 thinking | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | People | different things and heaven or a afterlife | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | different things and heaven or a afterlife | after death | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | can | nobody | for sure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | have | present | each family | death's own way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | death's own way not said here | about death | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
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:002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.lesson:10.
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 ×2, 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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