--- title: Loneliness is missing people and company; an old person living alone… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics description: Loneliness is missing people and company; an old person living alone after a husband or wife has died often feels it, and regular calls and visits help a lot. Who acts: Loneliness, old person, husband, regular calls. A sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life course of M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Big feelings in big people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/) / 14 # Big feelings in big people, sentence 14 Loneliness is missing people and company; an old person living alone after a husband or wife has died often feels it, and regular calls and visits help a lot. **Who acts:** Loneliness, old person, husband, regular calls · **What happens:** miss, live, die, feel, help · **To what, where:** people, loneliness, lot This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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 (Loneliness, old person, husband, regular calls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:14 # text = Loneliness is missing people and company; an old person living alone after a husband or wife has died often feels it, and regular calls and visits help a lot. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 036-big-feelings-in-big-people.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): R5-strong ×2 1 Loneliness loneliness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 missing miss VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 11 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 alone alone ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 after after SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **miss** | present · progressive | Loneliness | people and company | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | | 2 | **live** | gerund | a old person *not said here* | | | | | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **die** | present · perfect | a husband or wife | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **feel** | present | a old person | loneliness | | | | often *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **help** | present | regular calls and visits | a lot | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Beneficiary | 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:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:14`. **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 ×2. **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: [Big feelings in big people, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/13/) - next →: [Big feelings in big people, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/)