Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 2
Some people feel numb, as if they were in a bubble; some feel it in the body, with tummy aches or nights without sleep; and tears can arrive a month later, in the middle of a maths lesson, out of nowhere.
Who acts: people, some, tears · What happens: feel, be, arrive · To what, where: bubble, Grief, body, middle
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb» of the religion ethics 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 (people, some, tears), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | numb | numb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feel | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bubble | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 bubble | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 bubble | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bubble | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bubble | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bubble | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bubble | det |
| 12 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feel | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 aches | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 aches | case |
| 22 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 aches | compound |
| 23 | aches | ache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 feel | obl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 nights | cc |
| 25 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 aches | conj |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 sleep | case |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 aches | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 arrive | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 arrive | cc |
| 30 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 arrive | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 arrive | aux |
| 32 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feel | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 month | det |
| 34 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 later | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 arrive | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 middle | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 middle | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 middle | det |
| 39 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 arrive | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 lesson | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 lesson | det |
| 42 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lesson | compound |
| 43 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 middle | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 nowhere | punct |
| 45 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 nowhere | case |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 nowhere | case |
| 47 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 arrive | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | some people | numb property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | people | a bubble | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | some | Grief | the body | with tummy aches without sleep or nights | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in body=Location | ||
| 4 | arrive | can | tears | the middle of a maths lesson | late, nowhere 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:religion-ethics:066-grief-crying-not-crying-and-feeling-numb.lesson:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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