When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 10

An accident is a mistake with a terrible result, not something done on purpose; "beating yourself up" means blaming yourself again and again.

Who acts: accident, mistake · What happens: be, do, beat up, mean, blame · To what, where: mistake, purpose, yourself · 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 (accident, mistake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 accident	det
2	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mistake	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 means	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 result	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 result	det
8	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 result	amod
9	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mistake	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 something	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 something	advmod
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 result	appos
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 something	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 purpose	case
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 done	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 beating	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 beating	punct
18	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 means	csubj
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 beating	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 beating	compound:prt
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 beating	punct
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	blaming	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 means	xcomp
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 blaming	obj
25	again	again	ADV	_	23 blaming	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 again	cc
27	again	again	ADV	_	25 again	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mistake	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a accident	a mistake			with a terrible result	tree rules
2	do	participle			purpose			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	beat up in a quote	gerund		yourself				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourself=Theme
4	mean	present	a mistake					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	blame not said to happen	gerund	a mistake not said here	yourself		again		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme

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, 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:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:10.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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