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title: Sad feelings also come back around anniversaries, which is not "goin… — Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sad feelings also come back around anniversaries, which is not "going backwards"; and when people say clumsy things like "I know how you feel", they are usually trying to connect. Who acts: Sad feelings, going backwards, people, you. A sentence of the lesson «Living with loss: keeping memories, and 
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# Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 5

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Sad feelings also come back around anniversaries, which is not "going backwards"; and when people say clumsy things like "I know how you feel", they are usually trying to connect.

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**Who acts:** Sad feelings, going backwards, people, you, feelings · **What happens:** come back, not go, say, know, feel, try · **To what, where:** anniversaries, clumsy things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death» 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 (Sad feelings, going backwards, people, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.lesson:5
# text = Sad feelings also come back around anniversaries, which is not "going backwards"; and when people say clumsy things like "I know how you feel", they are usually trying to connect.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anniversaries	anniversary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:cop
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	backwards	backward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
21	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	connect	connect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 back** | present | Sad feelings |  |  | anniversaries |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around anniversary=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | going backwards |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | clumsy things |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | people | clumsy things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **try** | present · progressive | feelings *= feeling* |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **connect** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | feelings *= feeling* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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