Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 3
Months later he started talking out loud to Grandad at the river, and fishing began to feel like being near him again; keeping a tradition "in his memory" turned the hurt into a link.
Who acts: Ryan, fishing, keeping · What happens: start, talk out, begin, feel, be, keep · To what, where: Grandad, river, tradition, memory, hurt, link
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 (Ryan, fishing, keeping), 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 | Months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 later | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 started | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 started | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 talking | compound:prt |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 5 talking | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Grandad | case |
| 9 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 talking | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 15 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 feel | mark |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 23 again | mark |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 again | cop |
| 21 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 being | obl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 feel | advcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 keeping | punct |
| 25 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 turned | csubj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 tradition | det |
| 27 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 keeping | obj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 memory | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 memory | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 memory | nmod:poss |
| 31 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 keeping | obl |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 memory | punct |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hurt | det |
| 35 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | obj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 link | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 link | det |
| 38 | link | link | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Ryan | late property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | talk out | gerund | Ryan not said here | Grandad | the river | loud property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to grandad=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | begin | past | fishing | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | feel | to-infinitive | fishing not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is | gerund | fishing not said here | again property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | keep | gerund | a tradition | Ryan's memory | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tradition=Theme in memory=Location | ||||
| 7 | turn | past | keeping | the hurt | a link | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hurt=Theme into link=Trajectory |
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:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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