Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 1

Ryan's grandad always took him fishing; the first time Ryan went alone he sat by the river thinking, "It's not the same.

Who acts: grandad, Ryan, river · What happens: take, fish, go, sit, think, not be · To what, where: Ryan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death» 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 (grandad, Ryan, river), 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	Ryan	Ryan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ryan	case
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 took	advmod
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	fishing	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 took	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl:unmarked
12	Ryan	Ryan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
20	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sat	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
23	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 same	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 same	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 same	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 same	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 went	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Ryan's grandad	Ryan		always property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute
2	fish	gerund	Ryan's grandad not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	Ryan		time	alone property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sit	past	Ryan			by the river	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by river=Location
5	think speech: other	gerund	Ryan not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is in a quote	present	river			same 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:003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.lesson:1.

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): R8-pos-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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