Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 10
Grief often comes in waves: something small, like a song or a smell, can bring it back suddenly, even after a good day.
Who acts: Grief, something · What happens: come, bring back · To what, where: waves, Grief
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb» 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 (Grief, something), 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 | Grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 comes | advmod |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 waves | case |
| 5 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 comes | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 something | punct |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 something | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 song | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 song | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 song | det |
| 12 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 something | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 smell | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 smell | det |
| 15 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 song | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bring | punct |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 bring | aux |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comes | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 bring | advmod |
| 21 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 18 bring | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 day | punct |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 day | advmod |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 day | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 day | amod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Grief | waves | often property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location | |||
| 2 | bring back | can | something | Grief | day | suddenly property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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:066-grief-crying-not-crying-and-feeling-numb.lesson:10.
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 ×2, 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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