When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 8

Grief often comes in waves: sudden crying at odd moments, then calmer times; over weeks and months the waves usually come less often and less hard.

Who acts: Grief, waves · What happens: come, cry · To what, where: waves

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, waves), 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	3 comes	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 waves	case
5	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 comes	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 sudden	punct
7	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crying	amod
8	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 waves	appos
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 moments	case
10	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 moments	amod
11	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crying	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 times	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 times	advmod
14	calmer	calm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 times	amod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sudden	obl:unmarked
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 weeks	case
18	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 come	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 months	cc
20	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 weeks	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 waves	det
22	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 come	nsubj
23	usually	usually	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
24	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	parataxis
25	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 often	advmod
26	often	often	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hard	cc
28	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 hard	advmod
29	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 often	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Grief	waves		often property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location
2	cry speech: express	gerund			moment		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	the waves		week	often, usually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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:8.

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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