--- title: Guilt after a death is very common; the mind looks for something it… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics description: Guilt after a death is very common; the mind looks for something it could have changed, because that feels less helpless than accepting nobody could. Who acts: Guilt, mind, that. A sentence of the lesson «When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief» of the reflection course of Mova's prima --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 9 Guilt after a death is very common; the mind looks for something it could have changed, because that feels less helpless than accepting nobody could. **Who acts:** Guilt, mind, that · **What happens:** be, look, change, feel, accept · **To what, where:** nobody 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 (Guilt, mind, that), 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:9 # text = Guilt after a death is very common; the mind looks for something it could have changed, because that feels less helpless than accepting nobody could. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Guilt guilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux _ _ 17 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:case 20 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj _ _ 21 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 22 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 23 helpless helpless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 24 than than SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 accepting accept VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 26 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 25 obj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | present | Guilt after a death | | | | | common *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present | the mind | | | | | for something | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | | 3 | **change** | could · perfect | mind | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feel** | present | that | | | | | helpless *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **accept** | gerund | Guilt after a death *not said here* | nobody | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Theme | 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:9`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When someone dies: guilt, numbness and…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/1-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief/8/) - next →: [When someone dies: guilt, numbness and…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/1-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/1-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief/)