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title: Grief often comes in waves: sudden crying at odd moments, then calme… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief often comes in waves: sudden crying at odd moments, then calmer times; over weeks and months the waves usually come less often and less hard. Who acts: Grief, waves. A sentence of the lesson «When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief» of the reflection course of Mova's primary scho
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# When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 8

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Grief often comes in waves: sudden crying at odd moments, then calmer times; over weeks and months the waves usually come less often and less hard.

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**Who acts:** Grief, waves · **What happens:** come, cry · **To what, where:** 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, waves), 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:8
# text = Grief often comes in waves: sudden crying at odd moments, then calmer times; over weeks and months the waves usually come less often and less hard.
# 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	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	appos	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	calmer	calm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
25	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **come** | present | Grief |  |  | waves |  | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  | moment |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | present | the waves |  |  |  | week | often, usually *property* | 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): 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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