When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 4

Every family has its own customs: a Hindu family may pray at home for thirteen days, an Irish family may hold a wake where neighbours say «sorry for your trouble», a Jewish family may sit shiva; in the Bible, Job's friends did best when they simply sat with him in silence.

Who acts: family, Hindu family, Irish family, neighbours, Jewish family, friends · What happens: have, pray, hold, say, sit, do · To what, where: own customs, home, wake, shiva, Bible, silence · 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 (family, Hindu family, Irish family, neighbours), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 customs	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 customs	amod
6	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 pray	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 family	det
9	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 family	amod
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pray	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 pray	aux
12	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 customs	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pray	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 days	case
16	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 days	nummod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pray	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hold	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 family	det
20	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 family	amod
21	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 hold	aux
23	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pray	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wake	det
25	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	obj
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 say	advmod
27	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 say	nsubj
28	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 wake	acl:relcl
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 sorry	punct
30	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 say	ccomp
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 trouble	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 trouble	nmod:poss
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sorry	obl
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 sorry	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sit	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 family	det
37	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 family	amod
38	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sit	nsubj
39	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 sit	aux
40	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hold	parataxis
41	shiva	shiva	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sit	obj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 did	punct
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 Bible	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Bible	det
45	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 did	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Bible	punct
47	Job	Job	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 friends	nmod:poss
48	's	's	PART	_	47 Job	case
49	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 did	nsubj
50	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 sit	parataxis
51	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	50 did	advmod
52	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	55 sat	advmod
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 sat	nsubj
54	simply	simply	ADV	_	55 sat	advmod
55	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 did	advcl
56	with	with	ADP	_	57 him	case
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 sat	obl
58	in	in	ADP	_	59 silence	case
59	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 sat	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every family	family's own customs				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Patient
2	pray	may	a Hindu family		home	day		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	hold	may	a Irish family	a wake				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wake=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	neighbours					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	sit	may	a Jewish family	shiva				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shiva=Theme
6	do	past	Job's friends		the Bible		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sit	past	neighbours = neighbour		silence		with friend; simply property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location
8	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:4.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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