When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 4
Christians believe God comforts all who mourn and slowly turns mourning into joy; people of every faith and none find that love, friends and time help.
Who acts: Christians, God, people · What happens: believe, comfort, mourn, turn, find, help · To what, where: all, joy, love · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Christians, God, 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 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comforts | nsubj |
| 4 | comforts | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 comforts | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 mourn | nsubj |
| 7 | mourn | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 all | acl:relcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turns | cc |
| 9 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 turns | advmod |
| 10 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mourn | conj |
| 11 | mourning | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 turns | xcomp |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 joy | case |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mourning | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 find | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 faith | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 faith | det |
| 18 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 people | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 none | cc |
| 20 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 faith | conj |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 comforts | conj |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 love | det |
| 23 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 friends | punct |
| 25 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 love | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 time | cc |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 friends | conj |
| 28 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | comfort | present | God | all | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus all=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | mourn | present | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | turn | present | slowly property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | mourn | gerund | joy | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | find | infinitive | people of every faith | that love and friends and time | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent love=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «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:069-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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