Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 17
An anniversary is the date something happened, years later; a sad date and a happy date such as a birthday can be the same day, and people often find ways to hold both, like lighting a candle.
Who acts: anniversary, something, people · What happens: be, happen, find, hold, light · To what, where: date, same day, ways, both, candle
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 (anniversary, something, people), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 anniversary | det |
| 2 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 date | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 date | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 date | det |
| 5 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 date | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 years | punct |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 later | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 happened | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 date | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 date | det |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 date | amod |
| 14 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 date | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 date | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 date | det |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 date | amod |
| 18 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 date | conj |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 22 birthday | case |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 such | fixed |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 birthday | det |
| 22 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 date | nmod |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 day | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 day | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 day | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 day | amod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 date | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 find | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 find | cc |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 find | nsubj |
| 31 | often | often | ADV | _ | 32 find | advmod |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 date | conj |
| 33 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 find | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 hold | mark |
| 35 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 ways | acl |
| 36 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 hold | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lighting | punct |
| 38 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 39 lighting | mark |
| 39 | lighting | light | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 hold | advcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 candle | det |
| 41 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lighting | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 date | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a anniversary | the date and a sad date and a happy date such a birthday and the same day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | something | the date and a sad date and a happy date such a birthday and the same day not said here | late property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | can | a anniversary not said here | the same day | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | present | people | ways | often property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 5 | hold | to-infinitive | people not said here | both | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme | ||||
| 6 | light | gerund | people not said here | a candle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product |
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:17.
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 ×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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