When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 1

Jamie skipped visiting Grandad on Sunday to play football, and Grandad died on the Tuesday; every night in bed the same thought plays like a song stuck on repeat: "I could've gone.

Who acts: Jamie, Grandad, same thought, I · What happens: skip, visit, play, die, stick, go · To what, where: Grandad, football, song, repeat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief» 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 (Jamie, Grandad, same thought, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

character

polarity

neg

teacher

changed act=narrate

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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