--- title: The first Christmas without Da, Cian's family hangs Da's favourite b… — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics description: The first Christmas without Da, Cian's family hangs Da's favourite bauble, a wonky robin, right at the front of the tree, and they tell the story of him falling off the ladder in 2019. Who acts: family, Children, story. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, Children, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:29 # text = The first Christmas without Da, Cian's family hangs Da's favourite bauble, a wonky robin, right at the front of the tree, and they tell the story of him falling off the ladder in 2019. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 518-when-a-parent-has-died.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 4 without without ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Da Da PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 Cian Cian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod:poss 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 11 Da Da PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 bauble bauble NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 wonky wonky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 robin robin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 right right ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 acl _ _ 36 off off ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **hang** | present | Cian's family | the first Christmas without Da | | the front of the tree | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bauble=Theme at front=Destination | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Children | the story of family | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 3 | **fall off** | gerund | the story of family *not said here* | the ladder | | | | in 2019 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ladder=Extent in 2019=Attribute | 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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:29`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [When a parent has died, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/28/) - next →: [When a parent has died, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/)