--- title: Sad events like funerals sometimes bring families back together, but… — Feuds between families · tree and pragmatics description: Sad events like funerals sometimes bring families back together, but it is better not to wait for one. Who acts: Sad events. A sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/31/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Feuds between families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/) / 31 # Feuds between families, sentence 31 Sad events like funerals sometimes bring families back together, but it is better not to wait for one. **Who acts:** Sad events · **What happens:** bring, be, not wait · **To what, where:** families This is a sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» of the everyday 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 (Sad events), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:31 # text = Sad events like funerals sometimes bring families back together, but it is better not to wait for one. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 474-feuds-between-families.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 funerals funeral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 6 advmod _ _ 6 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 back back ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 9 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 conj _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | Sad events like funerals | families | | | | sometimes, together *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent family=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | Sad events like funerals *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **wait** | to-infinitive | | | | | | for one | vn exist-47.1 «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. **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:everyday:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:31`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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: [Feuds between families, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/30/) - next →: [Feuds between families, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/32/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/)