--- title: Ryan's grandad always took him fishing; the first time Ryan went alo… — Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss tha… · tree and pragmatics description: Ryan's grandad always took him fishing; the first time Ryan went alone he sat by the river thinking, "It's not the same. Who acts: grandad, Ryan, river. A sentence of the lesson «Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/3-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death/1/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Living with loss: keeping memories, an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/3-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death/) / 1 # Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 1 Ryan's grandad always took him fishing; the first time Ryan went alone he sat by the river thinking, "It's not the same. **Who acts:** grandad, Ryan, river · **What happens:** take, fish, go, sit, think, not be · **To what, where:** Ryan · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death» of the reflection 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 (grandad, Ryan, river), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.lesson:1 # text = Ryan's grandad always took him fishing; the first time Ryan went alone he sat by the river thinking, "It's not the same. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ryan Ryan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 fishing fish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 Ryan Ryan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 alone alone ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 23 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Ryan's grandad | Ryan | | | | always *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **fish** | gerund | Ryan's grandad *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | Ryan | | | | time | alone *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **sit** | past | Ryan | | | | | by the river | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by river=Location | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Ryan *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | river | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | 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:reflection:003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.lesson:1`. **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): 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. 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