Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 9

Feeling numb, «like being in a bubble», is very common after a death, especially at first; it is the mind's way of coping with a big shock.

Who acts: Feeling, death, way · What happens: feel, be, cope · To what, where: bubble, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Feeling, death, 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	Feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 common	csubj
2	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Feeling	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Feeling	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 being	punct
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 being	mark
6	being	be	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Feeling	parataxis
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bubble	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bubble	det
9	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 being	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 bubble	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Feeling	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 common	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 common	advmod
14	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 death	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 death	det
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 common	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 first	punct
19	especially	especially	ADV	_	21 first	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 first	case
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 common	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 way	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 way	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mind	det
26	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 way	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 mind	case
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 common	parataxis
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 coping	mark
30	coping	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 way	acl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 shock	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 shock	det
33	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 shock	amod
34	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 coping	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 common	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund					numb property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be in a quote	gerund			a bubble			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bubble=Location
3	is	present	Feeling			after a death	common, first property	tree rules
4	is a	present	death	the mind's way				tree rules
5	cope	gerund	the mind's way not said here				with a big shock	vn cope-83-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with shock=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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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