Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 17
Sad feelings often return around the anniversary of a death; it does not mean you are going backwards.
Who acts: Sad feelings, it, you · What happens: return, not mean, go · To what, where: anniversary · 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 (Sad feelings, it, you), 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 | Sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feelings | amod |
| 2 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 return | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 return | advmod |
| 4 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 anniversary | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 anniversary | det |
| 7 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 return | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 death | det |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anniversary | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mean | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 mean | advmod |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 return | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 going | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 mean | ccomp |
| 19 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 18 going | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | Sad feelings | the anniversary of a death | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around anniversary=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not mean | present · do-support | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | you | backwards property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:17.
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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