Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 4
Christians remember that Jesus wept when his friend Lazarus died, and people of every faith and none cry for those they love; boys and men cry too.
Who acts: Christians, Jesus, friend, people, boys · What happens: remember, weep, die, cry, love · 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 (Christians, Jesus, friend, people), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 remember | nsubj |
| 2 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 wept | mark |
| 4 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wept | nsubj |
| 5 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remember | ccomp |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 died | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | nsubj |
| 9 | Lazarus | Lazarus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | appos |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wept | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 people | cc |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cry | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 faith | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 faith | det |
| 16 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 people | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 none | cc |
| 18 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 16 faith | conj |
| 19 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 remember | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 those | case |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 cry | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 love | nsubj |
| 23 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 those | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 boys | punct |
| 25 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cry | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 men | cc |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 boys | conj |
| 28 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 remember | parataxis |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 cry | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | Christians | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | Jesus | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | die | past | Jesus's friend | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | present | people of every faith | for those | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for that=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | love | present | people | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | present | boys and men | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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