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title: Months later he started talking out loud to Grandad at the river, an… — Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Months later he started talking out loud to Grandad at the river, and fishing began to feel like being near him again; keeping a tradition "in his memory" turned the hurt into a link. Who acts: Ryan, fishing, keeping. A sentence of the lesson «Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't 
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# Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 3

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Months later he started talking out loud to Grandad at the river, and fishing began to feel like being near him again; keeping a tradition "in his memory" turned the hurt into a link.

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**Who acts:** Ryan, fishing, keeping · **What happens:** start, talk out, begin, feel, be, keep · **To what, where:** Grandad, river, tradition, memory, hurt, link

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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 (Ryan, fishing, keeping), 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:3
# text = Months later he started talking out loud to Grandad at the river, and fishing began to feel like being near him again; keeping a tradition "in his memory" turned the hurt into a link.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
21	near	near	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advcl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:nsubj
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
33	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	link	link	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **start** | past | Ryan |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **talk out** | gerund | Ryan *not said here* |  | Grandad | the river |  | loud *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to grandad=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **begin** | past | fishing |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **feel** | to-infinitive | fishing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | fishing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | again *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **keep** | gerund |  | a tradition |  | Ryan's memory |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tradition=Theme in memory=Location |
| 7 | **turn** | past | keeping | the hurt |  | a link |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hurt=Theme into link=Trajectory |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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