When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 7
Grief is the deep sadness after someone dies; "passed away" is a softer way of saying "died".
Who acts: Grief, someone, softer way · What happens: be, die, pass away, say · To what, where: deep sadness, softer way · 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 (Grief, someone, softer way), 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 | Grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sadness | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sadness | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sadness | det |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sadness | amod |
| 5 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 way | parataxis |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 dies | mark |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 dies | nsubj |
| 8 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sadness | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 way | nsubj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 passed | advmod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 way | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 saying | mark |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 way | acl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 died | punct |
| 21 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saying | ccomp |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 died | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sadness | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Grief | the deep sadness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | present | someone | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | pass away in a quote | past | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | a softer way | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | a softer way not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | die in a quote | past | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:7.
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): R6-punct-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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