Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 19

Writing a letter you can never send can still help the feelings, and saying thank you to people while you can is a good habit, not a debt.

Who acts: you, Writing · What happens: write, not send, help, say, thank, be · To what, where: letter, feelings, you, good habit · 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 (you, Writing), 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	Writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 help	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Writing	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 send	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 send	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 send	advmod
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 letter	acl:relcl
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 help	advmod
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feelings	det
12	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 help	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 habit	cc
15	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 habit	csubj
16	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 thank	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 people	case
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thank	obl
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 habit	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 habit	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 habit	aux
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 habit	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 habit	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 habit	amod
26	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 debt	punct
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 debt	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 debt	det
30	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 habit	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	write	gerund		a letter				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
2	not send	can	you	a letter not said here				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
3	help	can	Writing	the feelings		still		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Beneficiary
4	say speech: assert	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	thank speech: thank	present			you		to people	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	is a	can	you	a good habit and a debt				tree rules

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:19.

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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