Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 12

Some grown-ups find it too painful ("too raw") to talk about someone who died; their silence does not mean the person was bad.

Who acts: grown ups, silence, person, ups · What happens: grow, find, talk, die, not mean, be · To what, where: loss · 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 (grown ups, silence, person, ups), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 ups	det
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 painful	advmod
8	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 find	xcomp
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 raw	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 raw	punct
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 raw	advmod
12	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 painful	conj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 raw	punct
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 raw	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 talk	mark
16	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 painful	advcl
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 someone	case
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 talk	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 died	nsubj
20	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 someone	acl:relcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 mean	punct
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 silence	nmod:poss
23	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mean	nsubj
24	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mean	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 mean	advmod
26	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 find	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 person	det
28	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bad	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 bad	cop
30	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mean	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	present	some grown ups	loss	painful property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	talk	to-infinitive	some grown ups not said here		about someone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about someone=Topic
4	die	past				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not mean	present · do-support	ups's silence			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the person		bad property	tree rules
7	silence		ups = up			nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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:12.

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, 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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