When a grandparent dies, sentence 6
Ellie's church teaches that Grandad is now with God and that Christians will meet again in the resurrection; other faiths have their own hopes, some people believe death is the end, and all agree that love and memories stay.
Who acts: church, Grandad, Christians, other faiths, people, death · What happens: teach, be, meet, have, believe, agree · To what, where: resurrection, own hopes, end · 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 (church, Grandad, Christians, other faiths), 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 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 church | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ellie | case |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teaches | nsubj |
| 4 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 God | mark |
| 6 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 God | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 God | cop |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | _ | 10 God | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 God | case |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 teaches | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 meet | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 meet | mark |
| 13 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 meet | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 meet | aux |
| 15 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 God | conj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 meet | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 resurrection | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 resurrection | det |
| 19 | resurrection | resurrection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meet | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 faiths | amod |
| 22 | faiths | faith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 teaches | parataxis |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hopes | amod |
| 26 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 have | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 believe | punct |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 people | det |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 believe | nsubj |
| 30 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | conj |
| 31 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 end | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 end | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 end | det |
| 34 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 believe | ccomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 agree | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 agree | cc |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 agree | nsubj |
| 38 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 believe | conj |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 stay | mark |
| 40 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 stay | nsubj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 memories | cc |
| 42 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 love | conj |
| 43 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 agree | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 teaches | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | Ellie's church | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Grandad | now | with God | tree rules | |||
| 3 | meet | future | Christians | the resurrection | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | have | present | other faiths | faiths's own hopes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient | ||||
| 5 | believe | present | some people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | death | the end | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | agree speech: agree | present | all | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | stay | present | love and memories | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | hope | faiths = faith | nom hope «feeling 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:6.
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): 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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