Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 5
Sad feelings also come back around anniversaries, which is not "going backwards"; and when people say clumsy things like "I know how you feel", they are usually trying to connect.
Who acts: Sad feelings, going backwards, people, you, feelings · What happens: come back, not go, say, know, feel, try · To what, where: anniversaries, clumsy things · 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, going backwards, people, 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 come | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 anniversaries | case |
| 7 | anniversaries | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 backwards | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 going | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 going | advmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 backwards | amod |
| 14 | backwards | backward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 anniversaries | acl:relcl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 backwards | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 say | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 trying | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 say | advmod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 say | nsubj |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 trying | advcl |
| 21 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 say | obj |
| 23 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 26 know | mark |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 things | acl |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 feel | advmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 feel | nsubj |
| 29 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | ccomp |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 trying | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 trying | aux |
| 34 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 35 trying | advmod |
| 35 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 come | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 connect | mark |
| 37 | connect | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 trying | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present | Sad feelings | anniversaries | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around anniversary=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | going backwards | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | people | clumsy things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | people | clumsy things not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel in a quote | present | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | try | present · progressive | feelings = feeling | usually property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | connect not said to happen | to-infinitive | feelings = feeling not said here | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:5.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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