When a grandparent dies, sentence 13

When someone cannot travel to a funeral, they can say goodbye by lighting a candle, writing a letter, looking at photos or joining by video.

Who acts: someone, Christians · What happens: not travel, say, light, write, look, join · To what, where: funeral, goodbye, candle, letter · 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 (someone, Christians), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 travel	advmod
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 travel	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 travel	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 travel	advmod
5	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 funeral	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 funeral	det
8	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 travel	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 lighting	mark
15	lighting	light	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 say	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 candle	det
17	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lighting	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 writing	punct
19	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lighting	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 letter	det
21	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 writing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looking	punct
23	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 lighting	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 photos	case
25	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 looking	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 joining	cc
27	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 looking	conj
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 video	case
29	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 joining	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not travel	can	someone		a funeral		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to funeral=Destination
2	say speech: assert	can	Christians = christian	goodbye			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic
3	light	gerund	Christians = christian not said here	a candle			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product
4	write	gerund	Christians = christian not said here	a letter			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
5	look	gerund	Christians = christian not said here			at photos	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at photo=Theme
6	join	gerund	Christians = christian not said here			by video	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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:13.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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