--- title: When nobody mentions a death, the grieving person can feel invisible… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics description: When nobody mentions a death, the grieving person can feel invisible, even though most people do care; many grieving people want others to say the dead person's name. Who acts: nobody, grieving person, most people, many grieving people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody, grieving person, most people, many grieving people), 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:14 # text = When nobody mentions a death, the grieving person can feel invisible, even though most people do care; many grieving people want others to say the dead person's name. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 3 mentions mention VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 grieving grieve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 15 though though SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 grieving grieve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 amod _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 25 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | present | nobody | a death | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent death=Topic | | 2 | **grieve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **feel** | can | the grieving person | | | | | invisible *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **care** | present · do-support | most people | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **grieve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **want** | present | many grieving people | others | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | others *not said here* | the dead person's name | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 8 | **name** | | the dead person | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:14`. **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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