Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 12
Boys and men cry too; crying is human, not girly and not weak.
Who acts: Boys, crying · What happens: cry, be, not be
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 (Boys, 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 | Boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cry | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 men | cc |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Boys | conj |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 cry | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 7 | crying | crying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 human | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 human | cop |
| 9 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cry | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 girly | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 girly | advmod |
| 12 | girly | girly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 human | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 weak | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 weak | advmod |
| 15 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 human | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | Boys and men | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | crying | human property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not be | crying not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not be | crying not said here | tree rules |
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:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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