Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 10
People can grieve for a famous person they never met; when Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, after 70 years as queen, on TV and on coins and stamps, she felt part of many people's lives, and crowds left flowers at royal palaces.
Who acts: People, Elizabeth, crowds · What happens: grieve, not meet, die, feel, leave · To what, where: famous person, part, flowers, royal palaces
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» 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 (People, Elizabeth, crowds), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grieve | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 grieve | aux |
| 3 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 6 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grieve | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 met | advmod |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 person | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 died | advmod |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Elizabeth | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Elizabeth | Elizabeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 died | nsubj |
| 15 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 14 Elizabeth | flat |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 felt | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 2022 | case |
| 18 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 died | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 2022 | punct |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 21 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 died | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 queen | case |
| 24 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 years | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 TV | punct |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 TV | case |
| 27 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 died | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 coins | cc |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 coins | case |
| 30 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 TV | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stamps | cc |
| 32 | stamps | stamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 coins | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 coins | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 felt | nsubj |
| 35 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grieve | conj |
| 36 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 felt | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 lives | case |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 people | amod |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 lives | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 people | case |
| 41 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 part | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 left | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 left | cc |
| 44 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 left | nsubj |
| 45 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 felt | conj |
| 46 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 left | obj |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 palaces | case |
| 48 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 palaces | amod |
| 49 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 left | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grieve | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | can | People | for a famous person | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not meet | past | people | a famous person not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | die | past | Elizabeth Queen | year | on TV and coins and stamps; in 2022 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2022=Attribute | |||
| 4 | feel | past | Elizabeth | part of many people's lives | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | crowds | flowers | royal palaces | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flower=Theme at palace=Location |
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:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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