Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 9

Grown-ups cry too, especially about something they loved for a long time; seeing a parent cry can feel strange, but it is human.

Who acts: Grown ups, ups, seeing, cry · What happens: grow, cry, love, see, feel, be · To what, where: parent cry

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, ups, seeing, cry), 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	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ups	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cry	nsubj
4	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 cry	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 something	punct
7	especially	especially	ADV	_	9 something	advmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 something	case
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 cry	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 loved	nsubj
11	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 something	acl:relcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 loved	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 feel	punct
17	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 feel	csubj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cry	det
19	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cry	compound
20	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seeing	obj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 feel	aux
22	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cry	parataxis
23	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 feel	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 human	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 human	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 human	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 human	cop
28	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cry	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	present	Grown ups			about something	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about something=Topic
3	love	past	ups = up		time		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
4	see	gerund		a parent cry			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
5	feel	can	seeing			strange property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	present	cry			human property	tree rules

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:9.

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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