Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 11
Keeping clothes or things that smell like someone can bring comfort; many people do this.
Who acts: clothes, someone, many people · What happens: keep, smell, bring, do · To what, where: clothes, comfort, this
This is a sentence of the lesson «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» 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 (clothes, someone, many 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 | Keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Keeping | obj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 things | cc |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clothes | conj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 smell | nsubj |
| 6 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 clothes | acl |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 bring | mark |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 smell | ccomp |
| 11 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keeping | conj |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keeping | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | clothes or things | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | |||||
| 2 | smell | present | clothes or things | vn see-30.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | bring | can | someone | comfort | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | present | many people | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.lesson:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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