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title: But nobody knew that Sunday was the last chance, and one missed visi… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics
description: But nobody knew that Sunday was the last chance, and one missed visit does not cancel years of love; over weeks the sharp pain usually turns into a dull ache, and the day he forgets for a whole afternoon is not betrayal, it is healing. Who acts: nobody, Sunday, one missed visit, sharp pain. A senten
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# When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 5

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But nobody knew that Sunday was the last chance, and one missed visit does not cancel years of love; over weeks the sharp pain usually turns into a dull ache, and the day he forgets for a whole afternoon is not betrayal, it is healing.

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**Who acts:** nobody, Sunday, one missed visit, sharp pain, pain, day · **What happens:** know, be, miss, not cancel, turn, forget · **To what, where:** last chance, dull ache, day, betrayal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nobody, Sunday, one missed visit, sharp pain), 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:5
# text = But nobody knew that Sunday was the last chance, and one missed visit does not cancel years of love; over weeks the sharp pain usually turns into a dull ache, and the day he forgets for a whole afternoon is not betrayal, it is healing.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	missed	miss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	cancel	cancel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ache	ache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	forgets	forget	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	betrayal	betrayal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	healing	heal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **know** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Sunday | the last chance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **miss** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **cancel** | present · do-support | one missed visit |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** | present | the sharp pain |  |  | a dull ache | week | usually *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into ache=Trajectory |
| 6 | **forget** | present | pain | the day *not said here* |  |  | afternoon |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **is a** | present | the day | betrayal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **heal** | present · progressive | visit |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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 ×1, R6-punct-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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