When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 14

In Ireland a wake is often held at home, where people visit, pray, chat and share food; mourners say «sorry for your trouble», and nobody has to look at the body.

Who acts: people, mourners, nobody, your · What happens: hold, visit, pray, chat, share, say · To what, where: wake, Ireland, food · 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 (people, mourners, nobody, your), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Ireland	case
2	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 held	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wake	det
4	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 held	aux:pass
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 held	advmod
7	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 visit	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 visit	advmod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 visit	nsubj
13	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 home	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pray	punct
15	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 visit	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chat	punct
17	chat	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 visit	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 share	cc
19	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 chat	conj
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 share	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
22	mourners	mourner	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 held	parataxis
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 sorry	punct
25	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 say	ccomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 trouble	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 trouble	nmod:poss
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sorry	obl
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 sorry	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 has	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 has	cc
32	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 has	nsubj
33	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 say	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 look	mark
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 has	xcomp
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 body	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 body	det
38	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 look	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 held	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	present · passive		a wake	Ireland	at home; often property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in ireland=Location
2	visit	present	people				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pray	present	people not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	chat speech: other	present	people not said here				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	share	present	people not said here	food			tree rules
6	say speech: assert	present	mourners				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	have	present	nobody				tree rules
8	look	to-infinitive	nobody not said here			at the body	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at body=Theme
9	trouble in a quote		your				nom trouble «cognition transitive»: 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:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:14.

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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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