When a grandparent dies, sentence 5
Grief comes in waves: a child may play football as usual, feel relief that the pain is over, forget for a whole day at the beach and then feel guilty, and all of this is normal and does not mean the love has gone.
Who acts: Grief, child, pain, all, love · What happens: come, play, feel, be, forget, not mean · To what, where: waves, football, relief · 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 (Grief, child, pain, all), 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 | Grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 waves | case |
| 4 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 play | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 play | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 play | aux |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 comes | parataxis |
| 10 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 play | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 usual | case |
| 12 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 football | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feel | punct |
| 14 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 play | conj |
| 15 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feel | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 over | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pain | det |
| 18 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 over | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 over | cop |
| 20 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 feel | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forget | punct |
| 22 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 play | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 day | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 day | amod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forget | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 beach | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 beach | det |
| 29 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 day | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 feel | cc |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 feel | advmod |
| 32 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 play | conj |
| 33 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 feel | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 normal | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 normal | cc |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 normal | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 this | case |
| 38 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 all | nmod |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 normal | cop |
| 40 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 comes | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 mean | cc |
| 42 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 mean | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 mean | advmod |
| 44 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 normal | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 love | det |
| 46 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 gone | nsubj |
| 47 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 gone | aux |
| 48 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 mean | ccomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Grief | waves | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location | ||||
| 2 | play | may | a child | football | as usual | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | infinitive | a child not said here | relief | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relief=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the pain | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | forget | infinitive | a child not said here | day | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | feel | infinitive | a child not said here | then | guilty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | is | present | all | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not mean | present · do-support | all not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | go | present · perfect | the love | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:058-when-a-grandparent-dies.lesson:5.
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): 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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