When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 9
For most people the pain of grief gets softer over time; it does not vanish completely, but there is more room for happy memories.
Who acts: pain, more room · What happens: get, not vanish, be, pain · To what, where: grief
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 (pain, more room), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 people | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gets | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pain | det |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 grief | case |
| 7 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pain | nmod |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 gets | xcomp |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 softer | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 vanish | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 vanish | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 vanish | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 vanish | advmod |
| 16 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gets | parataxis |
| 17 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 16 vanish | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 is | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gets | parataxis |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 room | amod |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 is | nsubj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 memories | case |
| 25 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 memories | amod |
| 26 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 room | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the pain of grief | for most people; soft property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for people=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | not vanish | present · do-support | pain | completely property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | present | more room for happy memories | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pain | grief | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
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:9.
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): no change. 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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