When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 9

Guilt after a death is very common; the mind looks for something it could have changed, because that feels less helpless than accepting nobody could.

Who acts: Guilt, mind, that · What happens: be, look, change, feel, accept · To what, where: nobody

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 (Guilt, mind, that), 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	Guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 common	nsubj
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 death	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 death	det
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Guilt	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 common	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 common	advmod
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 looks	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mind	det
10	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looks	nsubj
11	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 common	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 something	case
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 looks	obl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 changed	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 changed	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 changed	aux
17	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 something	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 helpless	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 feels	mark
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 feels	nsubj
21	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 looks	advcl
22	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 helpless	advmod
23	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feels	xcomp
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 accepting	mark
25	accepting	accept	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 common	advcl
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 accepting	obj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 nobody	aux
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 common	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Guilt after a death		common property	tree rules
2	look	present	the mind		for something	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme
3	change	could · perfect	mind			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	feel	present	that		helpless property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	accept	gerund	Guilt after a death not said here	nobody		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=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:9.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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