Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 16
A recording of a loved one's voice can bring comfort and tears; it is okay to listen or not.
Who acts: recording · What happens: love, bring, be, listen · To what, where: comfort
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 (recording), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 recording | det |
| 2 | recording | recording | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 voice | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 one | case |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recording | nmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tears | cc |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 comfort | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 okay | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 okay | expl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 okay | cop |
| 17 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bring | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 listen | mark |
| 19 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 okay | csubj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 not | cc |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 listen | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | bring | can | a recording of a loved one's voice | comfort and tears | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | okay property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | listen | to-infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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