When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 13

Avoiding a grieving friend can make them feel lonely; «I didn't know what to say, but I'm here» is enough.

Who acts: Avoiding, respect, sorry, I · What happens: avoid, grieve, make, feel, not know, say · To what, where: grieving friend, respect · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» 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 (Avoiding, respect, sorry, I), 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	Avoiding	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 make	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 friend	det
3	grieving	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 friend	amod
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Avoiding	obj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feel	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 enough	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 know	advmod
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 enough	csubj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 say	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 know	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 enough	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 enough	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 enough	nsubj
22	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 enough	cop
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 enough	advmod
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 enough	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 enough	cop
26	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	avoid	gerund		a grieving friend			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Location
2	grieve	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	can	Avoiding	respect			tree rules
4	feel	infinitive	respect not said here			lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	not know in a quote	past · do-support	sorry				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
7	is	present	I		here	enough property	tree rules

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:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.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): R2-punct-next ×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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