Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 4
Loss is not only death: a best friend moving abroad, a dog that has to be rehomed, a mum changed by illness, or a family that goes silent can all leave a hole, and the feelings are real even when nobody has died.
Who acts: Loss, best friend, dog, family, feelings, nobody · What happens: not be, move, have, rehom, change, go · To what, where: death, dog, mum, hole
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 (Loss, best friend, dog, family), 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 | Loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 death | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 death | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 death | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 death | advmod |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 leave | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 friend | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 friend | amod |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 leave | nsubj |
| 10 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 friend | acl |
| 11 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 10 moving | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dog | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friend | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 has | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dog | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 rehomed | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 rehomed | aux:pass |
| 19 | rehomed | rehom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 has | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mum | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mum | det |
| 22 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friend | conj |
| 23 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 mum | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 illness | case |
| 25 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 changed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 family | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 family | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 family | det |
| 29 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friend | conj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 goes | nsubj |
| 31 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 family | acl:relcl |
| 32 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 goes | xcomp |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 leave | aux |
| 34 | all | all | ADV | _ | 35 leave | advmod |
| 35 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 death | parataxis |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 hole | det |
| 37 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 leave | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 real | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 real | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 feelings | det |
| 41 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 real | nsubj |
| 42 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 real | cop |
| 43 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 death | parataxis |
| 44 | even | even | ADV | _ | 48 died | advmod |
| 45 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 48 died | mark |
| 46 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 48 died | nsubj |
| 47 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 died | aux |
| 48 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 real | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 death | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Loss | death | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund | a best friend and a dog and a mum or a family not said here | abroad property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present · passive | a dog | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rehom | to-infinitive · passive | a dog not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | change | participle | a mum not said here | by illness | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | go | present | a family | silent property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | leave | can | a best friend and a dog and a mum or a family | a hole | all property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | |||
| 8 | is | present | the feelings | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | die | present · perfect | nobody | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:4.
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 ×4, 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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