Living well because life is short, sentence 15
A bucket list is a list of things someone wants to do before they die; the name comes from the saying «kick the bucket», meaning «die».
Who acts: bucket list, someone, things, innings, name · What happens: be, want, do, die, come, kick · To what, where: list, things, saying, bucket · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Living well because life is short» 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 (bucket list, someone, things, innings), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 list | det |
| 2 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 list | compound |
| 3 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 list | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 list | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 list | det |
| 6 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 list | nmod |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 wants | nsubj |
| 10 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 things | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wants | xcomp |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 die | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 die | nsubj |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 comes | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comes | nsubj |
| 19 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 list | parataxis |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 saying | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 saying | det |
| 22 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comes | obl |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 kick | punct |
| 24 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 saying | appos |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bucket | det |
| 26 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kick | obj |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 kick | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 meaning | punct |
| 29 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 comes | advcl |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 die | punct |
| 31 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 meaning | xcomp |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 die | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 list | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a bucket list | a list | of things | tree rules | |||
| 2 | want | present | someone | things not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | things not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | die | present | innings = inning | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | come | present | the name | the saying | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from saying=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | kick in a quote | infinitive | the bucket | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient | |||||
| 7 | mean | gerund | the name not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | die not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | the name not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:076-living-well-because-life-is-short.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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