Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 7

You can be sad about someone you never met, such as a baby cousin who died before or at birth, especially when people you love are sad; there is no rule about who is allowed to grieve.

Who acts: You, baby cousin, people, rule · What happens: be, not meet, die, love, allow, grieve · To what, where: people, rule

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, baby cousin, people, rule), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sad	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 someone	case
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 sad	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 met	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 met	advmod
9	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 someone	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cousin	punct
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	15 cousin	case
12	as	as	ADP	_	11 such	fixed
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cousin	det
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cousin	compound
15	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 someone	nmod
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 died	nsubj
17	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cousin	acl:relcl
18	before	before	ADV	_	17 died	advmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 birth	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 birth	case
21	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 someone	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sad	punct
23	especially	especially	ADV	_	29 sad	advmod
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 sad	advmod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sad	nsubj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 love	nsubj
27	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 people	acl:relcl
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sad	cop
29	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sad	advcl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 is	punct
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 is	expl
32	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	parataxis
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 rule	det
34	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 is	nsubj
35	about	about	SCONJ	_	38 allowed	mark
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 allowed	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 allowed	aux:pass
38	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 rule	acl:relcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 grieve	mark
40	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 allowed	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sad	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	can	You			about someone; sad property	tree rules
2	not meet	past	you				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die	past	a baby cousin			before property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	love	present	you	people not said here			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
5	is	present	people			especially, sad property	tree rules
6	be	present	no rule		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	allow	present · passive		no rule			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
8	grieve not said to happen	to-infinitive	no rule not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:7.

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): 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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