When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 18

Knowing that someone will die soon can bring grief early; "terminally ill" means ill and not going to get better, and fearing that other family members will die too is common and does not make it happen.

Who acts: someone, Knowing, ill, other family members, fearing, Grief · What happens: know, die, bring, mean, not go, get · To what, where: grief · 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 (someone, Knowing, ill, other family members), 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	Knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 bring	csubj
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 die	mark
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 die	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Knowing	ccomp
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 die	advmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bring	aux
8	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bring	obj
10	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 bring	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
13	terminally	terminally	ADV	_	14 ill	advmod
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 means	nsubj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bring	parataxis
17	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 means	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 going	cc
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 going	advmod
20	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 ill	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 get	mark
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 going	xcomp
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 get	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fearing	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fearing	cc
26	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 common	csubj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 die	mark
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 members	amod
29	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 members	compound
30	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 die	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 die	aux
32	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fearing	ccomp
33	too	too	ADV	_	32 die	advmod
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 common	cop
35	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 means	ccomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 make	cc
37	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 make	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 make	advmod
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 common	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 make	obj
41	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 make	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bring	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	gerund				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	die	future	someone		soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	bring	can	Knowing	grief	early property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grief=Theme
4	mean	present	ill		ill property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	not go	gerund	ill not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	get	to-infinitive	ill not said here		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	fear	gerund				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	die	future	other family members			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	is	present	fearing		common property	tree rules
10	not make	present · do-support	fearing not said here	Grief		tree rules
11	not happen	infinitive	Grief not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «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:18.

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 ×3, R6-punct-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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