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title: At an Irish wake people gather to remember the person, and sad and f… — Dementia and the first death in the family · tree and pragmatics
description: At an Irish wake people gather to remember the person, and sad and funny stories are both part of it. Who acts: people, sad stories. A sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 44

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At an Irish wake people gather to remember the person, and sad and funny stories are both part of it.

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**Who acts:** people, sad stories · **What happens:** gather, remember, be · **To what, where:** Irish wake, person, part

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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, sad stories), 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:44
# text = At an Irish wake people gather to remember the person, and sad and funny stories are both part of it.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
13	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
15	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **gather** | present | people |  |  | a Irish wake |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **remember** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | the person |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | sad stories | both part |  |  |  | of part | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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