When a grandparent dies, sentence 1

Picture Ellie at breakfast: in the night her mum got a phone call, and now she says, «Grandad died in hospital in his sleep.

Who acts: you, mum, Grandad · What happens: picture, get, say, die, sleep · To what, where: Ellie, breakfast, phone call · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When a grandparent dies» 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 (you, mum, Grandad), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 breakfast	case
4	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mum	nmod:poss
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 call	det
13	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 call	compound
14	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 says	cc
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 says	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 says	nsubj
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 got	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 died	punct
22	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 died	nsubj
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 says	ccomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 hospital	case
25	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 died	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 sleep	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sleep	nmod:poss
28	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 died	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	Ellie	breakfast			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ellie=Theme
2	get	past	Ellie's mum	a phone call		night		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	mum			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	die in a quote	past	Grandad				in Grandad's sleep; in hospital	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in hospital=Attribute
5	sleep in a quote		Grandad					nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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:058-when-a-grandparent-dies.lesson:1.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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