Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment, sentence 0
Grief is not only sadness: after his dad's funeral Ben slams doors and shouts «It's not FAIR!», and that anger is part of grief too, because losing someone you love really does feel unfair.
Who acts: Grief, Ben, anger, you · What happens: not be, slam, shout, be, lose, love · To what, where: sadness, doors, part, someone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment» 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, Ben, anger, you), 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 | 5 sadness | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sadness | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sadness | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 sadness | advmod |
| 5 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 sadness | punct |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 funeral | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dad | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 funeral | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 dad | case |
| 11 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slams | obl |
| 12 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 slams | nsubj |
| 13 | slams | slam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sadness | parataxis |
| 14 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 slams | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shouts | cc |
| 16 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 slams | conj |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 FAIR | punct |
| 18 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 FAIR | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 FAIR | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 FAIR | advmod |
| 21 | FAIR | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sadness | conj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 FAIR | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 sadness | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 part | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 part | cc |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 anger | det |
| 27 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 part | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 part | cop |
| 29 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sadness | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 grief | case |
| 31 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 part | nmod |
| 32 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 part | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 losing | punct |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 losing | mark |
| 35 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sadness | conj |
| 36 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 35 losing | obj |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 love | nsubj |
| 38 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 someone | acl:relcl |
| 39 | really | really | ADV | _ | 41 feel | advmod |
| 40 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 feel | aux |
| 41 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 someone | acl:relcl |
| 42 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 feel | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sadness | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Grief | sadness and part | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slam | present | Ben | doors | after his dad's funeral | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 3 | shout speech: express | present | Ben not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | Grief | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | that anger | part | of grief | tree rules | |||
| 6 | lose | gerund | Grief not said here | someone | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | love | present | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | feel | present · do-support | unfair property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.lesson:0.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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