When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 14
When nobody mentions a death, the grieving person can feel invisible, even though most people do care; many grieving people want others to say the dead person's name.
Who acts: nobody, grieving person, most people, many grieving people, others, dead person · What happens: mention, grieve, feel, care, want, say · To what, where: death, others, name · 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 (nobody, grieving person, most people, many grieving people), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 mentions | mark |
| 2 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 mentions | nsubj |
| 3 | mentions | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feel | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 death | det |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mentions | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mentions | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 person | det |
| 8 | grieving | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 person | amod |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feel | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 feel | aux |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feel | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 care | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 care | advmod |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 care | mark |
| 16 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 care | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 care | aux |
| 19 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 feel | advcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 want | punct |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 people | amod |
| 22 | grieving | grieve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 people | amod |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 want | nsubj |
| 24 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feel | parataxis |
| 25 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 want | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 say | mark |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 want | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 person | det |
| 29 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 person | amod |
| 30 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 name | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 person | case |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 say | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | present | nobody | a death | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent death=Topic | ||||
| 2 | grieve | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | feel | can | the grieving person | invisible property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | care | present · do-support | most people | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | grieve | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | want | present | many grieving people | others | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | others not said here | the dead person's name | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | ||||
| 8 | name | the dead person | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:14.
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): 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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