Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 5
And not every loss is a death: a parent going to prison or a friend far away can hurt in the same way, and that hurt is real too.
Who acts: loss, parent, hurt · What happens: not be, go, hurt, be · To what, where: death, prison, same 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 (loss, parent, hurt), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 death | cc |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 death | advmod |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 loss | det |
| 4 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 death | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 death | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 death | det |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hurt | parataxis |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 parent | det |
| 10 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | nsubj |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 death | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 prison | case |
| 13 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 friend | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 friend | det |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prison | conj |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 away | advmod |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 friend | advmod |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hurt | aux |
| 20 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 way | amod |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hurt | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 real | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 real | cc |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 hurt | det |
| 28 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 real | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 real | cop |
| 30 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hurt | conj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 real | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 death | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | every loss | a death | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | a parent | prison or a friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hurt | can | the same way | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | that hurt | real property | 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:5.
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, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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