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title: In Cork, at Granda's wake (a gathering at home to remember the perso… — Dementia and the first death in the family · tree and pragmatics
description: In Cork, at Granda's wake (a gathering at home to remember the person, often with the coffin there), people tell funny stories: «He was some craic» (Irish for great fun). Who acts: people, family. A sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» of the everyday course of Mova's 
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# Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 27

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In Cork, at Granda's wake (a gathering at home to remember the person, often with the coffin there), people tell funny stories: «He was some craic» (Irish for great fun).

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**Who acts:** people, family · **What happens:** remember, tell, be · **To what, where:** person, funny stories, Cork, craic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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 (people, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:27
# text = In Cork, at Granda's wake (a gathering at home to remember the person, often with the coffin there), people tell funny stories: «He was some craic» (Irish for great fun).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Cork	Cork	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Granda	Granda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
30	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
31	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	craic	craic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | the person and the coffin |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | people | funny stories |  | Cork |  | at Granda's wake | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | family | some craic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:27`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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