The church funeral, sentence 3

People show sadness in different ways: some cry, some cry later, some laugh at the funny stories, and a four-year-old may ask loudly about McDonald's; all of it can belong at a funeral.

Who acts: People, some, four year, all · What happens: show, laugh, ask, belong · To what, where: sadness, funny stories, funeral

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, some, four year, all), 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 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ways	case
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ways	amod
6	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 cry	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 cry	det
9	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ways	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cry	punct
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 cry	det
12	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cry	conj
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 laugh	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 later	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 laugh	nsubj
16	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cry	nmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 stories	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stories	det
19	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stories	amod
20	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 laugh	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 a	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 a	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 old	det
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 year	nummod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 four	punct
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ask	nsubj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 year	punct
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ask	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 ask	aux
30	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 show	parataxis
31	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	30 ask	advmod
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 McDonald	case
33	McDonald	McDonald	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 ask	obl
34	's	's	PART	_	33 McDonald	case
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 belong	punct
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 belong	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 all	nmod
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 belong	aux
40	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ask	parataxis
41	at	at	ADP	_	43 funeral	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 funeral	det
43	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 belong	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	People	sadness		in different ways some cry and some cry	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent sadness=Patient in way=Topic
2	laugh		some		the funny stories	late property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	may	four year			about McDonald; loudly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about mcdonald=Topic
4	belong	can	all		a funeral		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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:3.

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 ×3, R7-rel-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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