Living well because life is short, sentence 7
A death often reminds people that life is short and makes them want to spend time on what matters.
Who acts: death, life, people · What happens: remind, be, make, want, spend, matter · To what, where: people · 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 (death, life, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 death | det |
| 2 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reminds | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 reminds | advmod |
| 4 | reminds | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reminds | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 short | mark |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 short | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 short | cop |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reminds | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 makes | cc |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reminds | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 makes | obj |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 spend | mark |
| 15 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 want | xcomp |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spend | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 matters | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 matters | nsubj |
| 19 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spend | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reminds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | present | a death | people | often property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | life | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present | a death not said here | people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | want | infinitive | people not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | spend not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | matter | present | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:7.
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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