--- title: The anniversary of a death often brings the sadness back strongly; f… — Funerals and remembering · tree and pragmatics description: The anniversary of a death often brings the sadness back strongly; families may light a candle, visit the grave or share stories. Who acts: anniversary, families. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anniversary, families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:025-funerals-and-remembering.lesson:16 # text = The anniversary of a death often brings the sadness back strongly; families may light a candle, visit the grave or share stories. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 025-funerals-and-remembering.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 anniversary anniversary NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 back back ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 13 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 light light VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 24 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | present | the anniversary of a death | the sadness | | | | often, strongly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sadness=Theme | | 2 | **light** | may | families | a candle | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product | | 3 | **visit** | infinitive | families *not said here* | the grave | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Co-Agent | | 4 | **share** | infinitive | families *not said here* | stories | | | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:025-funerals-and-remembering.lesson:16`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Funerals and remembering, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/15/) - next →: [Funerals and remembering, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/)