--- title: Grief is the deep sadness after someone dies; "passed away" is a sof… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics description: Grief is the deep sadness after someone dies; "passed away" is a softer way of saying "died". Who acts: Grief, someone, softer way. A sentence of the lesson «When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/1-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [When someone dies: guilt, numbness and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/1-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief/) / 7 # When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 7 Grief is the deep sadness after someone dies; "passed away" is a softer way of saying "died". **Who acts:** Grief, someone, softer way · **What happens:** be, die, pass away, say · **To what, where:** deep sadness, softer way · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, someone, softer way), 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:7 # text = Grief is the deep sadness after someone dies; "passed away" is a softer way of saying "died". # 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): R6-punct-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 17 parataxis _ _ 6 after after SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 8 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 nsubj _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 of of SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Grief | the deep sadness | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **die** | present | someone | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **pass away** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a softer way | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a softer way *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **die** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:7`. **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): 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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