--- title: Missing a brother who has left home is natural; calls, letters and t… — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics description: Missing a brother who has left home is natural; calls, letters and talking help. Who acts: brother, Missing, calls. A sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» 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/501-big-brothers/44/) [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/) / [Big brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/) / 44 # Big brothers, sentence 44 Missing a brother who has left home is natural; calls, letters and talking help. **Who acts:** brother, Missing, calls · **What happens:** miss, leave, be, talk, help · **To what, where:** brother, home This is a sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» 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 (brother, Missing, calls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:501-big-brothers.lesson:44 # text = Missing a brother who has left home is natural; calls, letters and talking help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 501-big-brothers.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): no change 1 Missing miss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 16 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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** | gerund | | a brother | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | | 2 | **leave** | present · perfect | a brother | home | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Missing | | | | | natural *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | calls and letters *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | present | calls and letters | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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](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:501-big-brothers.lesson:44`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Big brothers, 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/43/) - next →: [Big brothers, 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/45/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/)