Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 3

Grief comes in waves, like the sea at the beach: a big wave, then calm, then another wave when a song or a smell brings it back, and over time the waves usually get gentler.

Who acts: Grief, song, waves · What happens: come, bring back, get · To what, where: waves, Grief

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 (Grief, song, 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	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 waves	case
4	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sea	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 beach	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beach	det
11	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sea	nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 wave	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wave	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wave	amod
15	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waves	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 calm	punct
17	then	then	ADV	_	18 calm	advmod
18	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wave	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wave	punct
20	then	then	ADV	_	22 wave	advmod
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 wave	det
22	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wave	conj
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 brings	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 song	det
25	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brings	nsubj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 smell	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 smell	det
28	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 song	conj
29	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 wave	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brings	obj
31	back	back	ADV	_	29 brings	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 get	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 get	cc
34	over	over	ADP	_	35 time	case
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 get	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 waves	det
37	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 get	nsubj
38	usually	usually	ADV	_	39 get	advmod
39	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	conj
40	gentler	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 get	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Grief		waves		like the sea at the beach	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location
2	bring back	present	a song or a smell	Grief				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	get	present	the waves			time	gentle, usually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:3.

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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