When a grandparent dies, sentence 11
Some families visit the body at the funeral home to say goodbye; the person looks peaceful but is not breathing and feels cool; children may go if they wish, with a grown-up.
Who acts: families, person, children · What happens: visit, say, look, not breathe, feel, go · To what, where: body, funeral home, goodbye · 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 (families, person, children), 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 families | det |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 visit | nsubj |
| 3 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 visit | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 home | det |
| 8 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 home | compound |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 visit | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 visit | advcl |
| 12 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 looks | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looks | nsubj |
| 16 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 visit | parataxis |
| 17 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 looks | xcomp |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 breathing | cc |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 breathing | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 breathing | advmod |
| 21 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 looks | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 feels | cc |
| 23 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 breathing | conj |
| 24 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 feels | xcomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 visit | parataxis |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 wish | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 wish | nsubj |
| 31 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wish | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 up | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 up | det |
| 35 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 up | amod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 up | punct |
| 37 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 visit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present | some families | the body | the funeral home | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | some families not said here | goodbye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look | present | the person | peaceful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not breathe | present · progressive | the person not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | feel | present | the person not said here | cool property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | go | may | children | with a grown up | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with up=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | families = family | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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:11.
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. 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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