Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 15
Losing someone can happen in other ways than death, such as a parent going to prison ("doing time"); a parent's mistake is not the child's mistake.
Who acts: Losing, parent, mistake · What happens: lose, happen, go, do, not be, mistake · To what, where: someone, other ways, prison, mistake · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Losing, parent, mistake), 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 | Losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 happen | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Losing | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ways | case |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ways | amod |
| 7 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happen | obl |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 death | case |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ways | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 going | mark |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 parent | det |
| 14 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | nsubj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ways | appos |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 prison | case |
| 17 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | obl |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 doing | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 doing | punct |
| 20 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 prison | ccomp |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 doing | obj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 doing | punct |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 doing | punct |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 mistake | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 parent | det |
| 26 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mistake | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 parent | case |
| 28 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mistake | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 mistake | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 mistake | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 child | det |
| 32 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mistake | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 child | case |
| 34 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happen | parataxis |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | someone | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | happen | can | Losing | other ways than death | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | a parent | prison | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | gerund | a parent not said here | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not is a | present | a parent's mistake | the child's mistake | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mistake | a parent | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=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:reflection:002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.lesson:15.
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, R8-pos-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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