When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 13

People often avoid someone who is grieving because they are scared of saying the wrong thing; a short "I'm so sorry, I don't know what to say, but I'm here" is enough.

Who acts: People, short · What happens: avoid, grieve, be, say, not know · To what, where: someone, wrong thing · 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 (People, short), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 avoid	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 avoid	advmod
3	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 avoid	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 grieving	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grieving	aux
7	grieving	grieve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 someone	acl:relcl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 scared	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 scared	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 scared	cop
11	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grieving	advcl
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 saying	mark
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 scared	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saying	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 enough	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 short	det
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 enough	nsubj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 sorry	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sorry	nsubj
22	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sorry	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 sorry	advmod
24	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 short	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 know	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 know	advmod
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sorry	parataxis
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 say	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 say	mark
32	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 know	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 here	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 here	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 here	nsubj
36	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 here	cop
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 short	advmod
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 short	punct
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 enough	cop
40	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 avoid	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 avoid	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	avoid	present	People	someone	often property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent someone=Location
2	grieve	present · progressive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	people		scared property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	people not said here	the wrong thing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
5	is in a quote	present	people		sorry property	tree rules
6	not know in a quote	present · do-support	people			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
8	is in a quote	present	people		here property	tree rules
9	is	present	a short		enough 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, 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:13.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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