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title: Grief is the deep sadness after someone you love dies, and it does n… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief is the deep sadness after someone you love dies, and it does not move in a straight line: it comes in waves, out of nowhere, in the bath or on the bus, then goes quiet for a while, then comes back. Who acts: Grief, you, someone. A sentence of the lesson «When someone dies: guilt, numbness and 
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# When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 0

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Grief is the deep sadness after someone you love dies, and it does not move in a straight line: it comes in waves, out of nowhere, in the bath or on the bus, then goes quiet for a while, then comes back.

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**Who acts:** Grief, you, someone · **What happens:** be, love, die, not move, come, go · **To what, where:** deep sadness, straight line, waves

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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 (Grief, you, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:0
# text = Grief is the deep sadness after someone you love dies, and it does not move in a straight line: it comes in waves, out of nowhere, in the bath or on the bus, then goes quiet for a while, then comes back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:obl
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
39	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
40	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
41	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
46	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
47	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
48	back	back	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Grief | the deep sadness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **die** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **not** **move** | present · do-support | Grief |  |  | a straight line |  | nowhere *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory |
| 5 | **come** | present | Grief |  |  | waves |  | in the bath or the bus | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location |
| 6 | **go** | present | Grief *not said here* |  |  |  | then; while | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **come back** | present | Grief *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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