Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 6

Places such as a grandparent's house hold memories, so losing them can feel like another loss; "bricks and mortar" means just a building.

Who acts: Places, bricks · What happens: hold, lose, feel, mean · To what, where: memories, building

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 (Places, bricks), 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	Places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 feel	nsubj
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	9 memories	case
3	as	as	ADP	_	2 such	fixed
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grandparent	det
5	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 grandparent	case
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Places	nmod
8	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Places	acl
9	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hold	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 losing	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 losing	advmod
12	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 feel	csubj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 losing	obj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 feel	aux
15	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 loss	case
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 loss	det
18	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feel	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 feel	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 bricks	punct
21	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 means	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mortar	cc
23	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bricks	conj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 bricks	punct
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 feel	ccomp
26	just	just	ADV	_	28 building	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 building	det
28	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 feel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Places a grandparent's house not said here	memories		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme
2	lose	gerund		memories = memory		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	feel	can	Places a grandparent's house		like another loss	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	mean	present	bricks and mortar	a building		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent building=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:6.

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, 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.

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