The church funeral, sentence 17
People grieve differently; not crying does not mean not caring.
Who acts: People, crying · What happens: grieve, not cry, not mean, not care · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The church funeral» 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, crying), 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 | 2 grieve | nsubj |
| 2 | grieve | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 2 grieve | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 crying | advmod |
| 6 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 mean | csubj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mean | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 mean | advmod |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 grieve | parataxis |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 caring | advmod |
| 11 | caring | care | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 mean | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grieve | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | present | People | differently property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not mean | present · do-support | crying | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not care not said to happen | gerund | crying not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:062-the-church-funeral.lesson:17.
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, R7-rel-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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