Promises, memory and keeping each other safe, sentence 7
Families try hard to follow the wishes of someone who has died, such as where their ashes are scattered.
Who acts: Families, someone · What happens: try, follow, die, scatter, wish · To what, where: wishes, ashes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» 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 (Families, someone), 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 | Families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 try | nsubj |
| 2 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | _ | 2 try | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 follow | mark |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 try | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wishes | det |
| 7 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 follow | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 someone | case |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 wishes | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 died | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 died | aux |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 someone | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scattered | punct |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 scattered | mark |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 such | fixed |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 scattered | advmod |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ashes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 scattered | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 scattered | aux:pass |
| 20 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 someone | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 try | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Families | hard property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | Families not said here | the wishes of someone | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | present · perfect | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | scatter | present · passive | wishes's ashes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | wish | someone | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=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:079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.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): 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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