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title: Grief, the sadness after someone dies, comes in waves: fine one day… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief, the sadness after someone dies, comes in waves: fine one day and terrible the next, sometimes set off by a song or a smell. Who acts: someone, Grief. A sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# When someone dies, sentence 13

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Grief, the sadness after someone dies, comes in waves: fine one day and terrible the next, sometimes set off by a song or a smell.

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**Who acts:** someone, Grief · **What happens:** die, come, set off · **To what, where:** waves

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» of the adult life 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 (someone, Grief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:024-when-someone-dies.lesson:13
# text = Grief, the sadness after someone dies, comes in waves: fine one day and terrible the next, sometimes set off by a song or a smell.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 024-when-someone-dies.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **come** | present | Grief |  |  | waves |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location |
| 3 | **set off** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a song or a smell; sometimes *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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