Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 4
Christians light candles and pray for those they miss, many families plant a tree or keep a hoodie that still smells of Dad, and people of every faith and none keep photos, recordings and stories.
Who acts: Christians, many families, hoodie, people · What happens: light, pray, miss, plant, keep, smell · To what, where: candles, tree, hoodie, photos
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 (Christians, many families, hoodie, 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 light | nsubj |
| 2 | light | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 light | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pray | cc |
| 5 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 light | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 those | case |
| 7 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 pray | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 miss | nsubj |
| 9 | miss | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 those | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 plant | punct |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 families | amod |
| 12 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 plant | nsubj |
| 13 | plant | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 light | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plant | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 keep | cc |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 plant | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hoodie | det |
| 19 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 smells | nsubj |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 smells | advmod |
| 22 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hoodie | acl:relcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Dad | case |
| 24 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 smells | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 people | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 keep | cc |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 keep | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 faith | case |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 faith | det |
| 30 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 people | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 none | cc |
| 32 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 30 faith | conj |
| 33 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 light | conj |
| 34 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 keep | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 recordings | punct |
| 36 | recordings | recording | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 photos | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 stories | cc |
| 38 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 photos | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 light | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | present | Christians | candles | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | Christians not said here | for those | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | miss | present | Christians = christian | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | plant | present | many families | a tree | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 5 | keep | present | many families not said here | a hoodie | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoodie=Theme | ||||
| 6 | smell | present | a hoodie | still | of Dad | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of dad=Theme | |||
| 7 | keep | present | people of every faith | photos and recordings and stories | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=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:4.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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