Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 15

Writing a letter to someone who has died can help you say what you did not get to say; the letter is for you.

Who acts: Writing, you, letter · What happens: write, die, help, say, not get, be · To what, where: letter, someone, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Writing, you, letter), 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	Writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 help	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Writing	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 someone	case
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 letter	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 died	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 died	aux
8	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 someone	acl:relcl
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 help	obj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 help	xcomp
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 say	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 get	advmod
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 get	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 letter	det
22	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 you	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 you	cop
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 help	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	write	gerund		a letter	someone		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to someone=Recipient
2	die	present · perfect					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	help	can	Writing	you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not get	past · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
7	is	present	the letter			for you	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:15.

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): no change. 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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