When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 5

There are no perfect words; «I'm so sorry about your mum» and «I'm here if you want to talk» are good, simple things to say.

Who acts: sorry, neighbours, you · What happens: be, want, talk, say · 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 (sorry, neighbours, you), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 good	parataxis
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 words	det
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 sorry	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 sorry	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 sorry	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sorry	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 sorry	advmod
11	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 good	nsubj
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 mum	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mum	nmod:poss
14	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sorry	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 sorry	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 here	cc
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 here	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 here	nsubj
19	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 here	cop
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 sorry	conj
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 want	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 want	nsubj
23	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 here	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 talk	mark
25	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 want	xcomp
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 here	punct
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 good	cop
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 things	punct
30	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 good	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 say	mark
33	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 things	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	sorry	about your mum; sorry property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	neighbours = neighbour	here property	tree rules
3	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	talk not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	sorry	good property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	sorry not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:5.

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 ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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