When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 4

That loop is guilt, and it is very common after a death: the mind hunts for one thing it could have changed, because "if only I had" feels less helpless than "nothing could be done".

Who acts: loop, mind, thought · What happens: be, hunt, change, have, feel, do · To what, where: guilt, one thing, nothing

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 (loop, mind, thought), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 loop	det
2	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guilt	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guilt	cop
4	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 common	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 common	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 common	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 common	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 common	advmod
10	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guilt	conj
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 death	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 death	det
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 common	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 hunts	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mind	det
16	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hunts	nsubj
17	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guilt	parataxis
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 thing	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 thing	nummod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hunts	obl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 changed	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 changed	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 changed	aux
24	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 thing	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 feels	mark
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
29	only	only	ADV	_	31 had	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 feels	advcl
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
33	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hunts	advcl
34	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 helpless	advmod
35	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 feels	xcomp
36	than	than	SCONJ	_	41 done	mark
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 done	punct
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	41 done	nsubj:pass
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 done	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 done	aux:pass
41	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 had	advcl
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 done	punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 guilt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that loop	guilt			tree rules
2	is	present	loop		after a death	common property	tree rules
3	hunt	present	the mind			for one thing	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme
4	change	could · perfect	mind	one thing not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
5	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	thought				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	feel	present	the mind not said here			helpless property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	do in a quote	could · passive		nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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:4.

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, 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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