Life and death: putting it all together, sentence 14
People may always miss someone they loved a little, but the pain usually softens and happy memories grow.
Who acts: People, pain, happy memories · What happens: miss, love, soften, grow · To what, where: someone, little
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life and death: putting it all together» 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 (People, pain, happy memories), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 miss | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 miss | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | _ | 4 miss | advmod |
| 4 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 miss | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 loved | nsubj |
| 7 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 someone | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 loved | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 softens | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 softens | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pain | det |
| 13 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 softens | nsubj |
| 14 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 softens | advmod |
| 15 | softens | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 miss | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grow | cc |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 memories | amod |
| 18 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 grow | nsubj |
| 19 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 softens | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 miss | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | may | People | someone | always property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | love | past | people | a little | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | soften | present | the pain | usually property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | happy memories | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
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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): R7-rel-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.
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