When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 11

Some people feel numb at first, as if their feelings were switched off, because the mind protects itself from too much at once; the tears can come weeks later.

Who acts: people, mind, tears · What happens: feel, switch off, protect, come · To what, where: feelings, mind

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 (people, mind, tears), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 numb	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 switched	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 switched	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 switched	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feelings	nmod:poss
11	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 switched	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 switched	aux:pass
13	switched	switch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feel	advcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 switched	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 protects	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 protects	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mind	det
18	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 protects	nsubj
19	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	advcl
20	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 protects	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 much	case
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 protects	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 protects	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tears	det
28	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 come	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feel	parataxis
31	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 later	obl:unmarked
32	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 come	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	present	some people		numb property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	switch off	past · passive		people's feelings		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	protect	present	the mind	mind	from much	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary from much=Theme
4	come	can	the tears		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:11.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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