--- title: That loop is guilt, and it is very common after a death: the mind hu… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics description: That loop is guilt, and it is very common after a death: the mind hunts for one thing it could have changed, because "if only I had" feels less helpless than "nothing could be done". Who acts: loop, mind, thought. 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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 (loop, mind, thought), 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:4 # text = That loop is guilt, and it is very common after a death: the mind hunts for one thing it could have changed, because "if only I had" feels less helpless than "nothing could be done". # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 loop loop NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 guilt guilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux _ _ 24 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 28 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:csubj 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 33 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 34 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 35 helpless helpless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 36 than than SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 38 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | that loop | guilt | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | loop | | | | after a death | common *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hunt** | present | the mind | | | | | for one thing | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme | | 4 | **change** | could · perfect | mind | one thing *not said here* | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 5 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | thought | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **feel** | present | the mind *not said here* | | | | | helpless *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | could · passive | | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | 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:4`. **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, 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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