Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 7
Crying is a normal and healthy way to let sadness out; it usually gets less over time, though it can come back.
Who acts: Crying, sadness · What happens: cry, be, let out, get, come back · To what, where: normal way, sadness
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 (Crying, sadness), 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 | Crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 way | csubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 4 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 healthy | cc |
| 6 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 normal | conj |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl |
| 10 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 let | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 gets | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gets | nsubj |
| 14 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 gets | advmod |
| 15 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | parataxis |
| 16 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 gets | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gets | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 gets | advcl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | 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 | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Crying | a normal way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let out | to-infinitive | sadness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | present | sadness | time | less, usually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | come back | can | sadness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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:066-grief-crying-not-crying-and-feeling-numb.lesson:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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