--- title: You can be sad about someone you never met, such as a baby cousin wh… — Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries an… · tree and pragmatics description: You can be sad about someone you never met, such as a baby cousin who died before or at birth, especially when people you love are sad; there is no rule about who is allowed to grieve. Who acts: You, baby cousin, people, rule. 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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 (You, baby cousin, people, rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.lesson:7 # text = You can be sad about someone you never met, such as a baby cousin who died before or at birth, especially when people you love are sad; there is no rule about who is allowed to grieve. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.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 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 15 case _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 before before ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 especially especially ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 31 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 32 expl _ _ 32 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 33 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 34 det _ _ 34 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 35 about about SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 grieve grieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 . . 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** | can | You | | | | | about someone; sad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **meet** | past | you | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **die** | past | a baby cousin | | | | | before *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **love** | present | you | people *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | present | people | | | | | especially, sad *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | present | no rule | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **allow** | present · passive | | no rule | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **grieve** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no rule *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.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): 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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