Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 13
Writing or talking about someone who has died keeps their memory alive.
What happens: write, talk, die, keep · To what, where: memory
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: 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 talking | cc |
| 3 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Writing | conj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 someone | case |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 talking | obl |
| 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 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 memory | nmod:poss |
| 11 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keeps | obj |
| 12 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keeps | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | gerund | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | about someone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about someone=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die | present · perfect | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | keep | present | Anniversaries's memory | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=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:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.lesson:13.
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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