When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 2

Sadness for a pet is real grief, because a pet is a friend you saw every day; nobody should say «it's just a bird», and it is normal to feel sad, angry, or to want someone to blame.

Who acts: Sadness, pet, you, nobody · What happens: be, see, say, feel, want, blame · To what, where: real grief, friend, bird », someone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics 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 (Sadness, pet, you, nobody), 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	Sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grief	nsubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 pet	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pet	det
4	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sadness	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grief	cop
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grief	amod
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 friend	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 friend	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pet	det
11	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 friend	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 friend	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 friend	det
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grief	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 friend	acl:relcl
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 nobody	punct
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 say	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 say	aux
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 grief	conj
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 »	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 »	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 »	cop
26	just	just	ADV	_	28 bird	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bird	det
28	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 »	compound
29	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 normal	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 normal	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 normal	expl
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 normal	cop
34	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 say	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 feel	mark
36	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 normal	csubj
37	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 feel	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 angry	punct
39	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 normal	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 want	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 want	cc
42	to	to	PART	_	43 want	mark
43	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 feel	conj
44	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	43 want	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 blame	mark
46	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 someone	acl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grief	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sadness for a pet	real grief			tree rules
2	is a	present	a pet	a friend			tree rules
3	see	past	you	a friend not said here	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	should	nobody				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	pet	bird »			tree rules
6	is	present	nobody not said here			normal property	tree rules
7	feel	to-infinitive				sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
8	be		nobody not said here				tree rules
9	want	to-infinitive		someone			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme
10	blame	to-infinitive		someone not said here			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:2.

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, 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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