Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 7

Some people want a new pet soon and others need a long time; both are normal ways of grieving, and there is no religious rule about it.

Who acts: people, others, both, normal ways, religious rule · What happens: want, need, be, grieve · To what, where: new pet, normal ways

This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» 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 (people, others, both, normal ways), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pet	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pet	amod
6	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 want	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 need	cc
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 want	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 ways	punct
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 ways	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ways	cop
17	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ways	amod
18	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	parataxis
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 grieving	mark
20	grieving	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 ways	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 is	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 is	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 is	expl
24	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 grieving	parataxis
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 rule	det
26	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rule	amod
27	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	nsubj
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rule	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	some people	a new pet			soon property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pet=Theme
2	need	present	others			time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a	present	both	normal ways				tree rules
4	grieve	gerund	normal ways not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	be	present	no religious rule about pet		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:7.

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): no change. 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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