When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 15
People can miss someone their whole life, but after many years the missing is usually gentler.
Who acts: People, missing · What happens: miss, be · To what, where: someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» 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 (People, missing), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 miss | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 miss | aux |
| 3 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 miss | obj |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 miss | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gentler | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 gentler | cc |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 years | amod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gentler | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 missing | det |
| 14 | missing | missing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gentler | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 gentler | cop |
| 16 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 17 gentler | advmod |
| 17 | gentler | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 miss | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 miss | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | can | People | someone | people's whole life obl:unmarked | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | present | the missing | year | gentle, usually 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:069-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer.lesson:15.
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 ×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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