Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 8
Holidays like Christmas can be very hard after a death, because they remind us who is missing.
Who acts: Holidays · What happens: be, remind · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Holidays), 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 | Holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 Christmas | case |
| 3 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Holidays | nmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 death | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 death | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 hard | advmod |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 death | det |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hard | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hard | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 remind | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 remind | nsubj |
| 14 | remind | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hard | advcl |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 remind | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 missing | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 missing | cop |
| 18 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 remind | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | after a death | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | remind speech: other | present | Holidays = holiday | us | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | missing property | tree rules |
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:8.
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): R5-strong ×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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