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title: Grief comes in waves: a child may play football as usual, feel relie… — When a grandparent dies · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief comes in waves: a child may play football as usual, feel relief that the pain is over, forget for a whole day at the beach and then feel guilty, and all of this is normal and does not mean the love has gone. Who acts: Grief, child, pain, all. A sentence of the lesson «When a grandparent dies» 
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# When a grandparent dies, sentence 5

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Grief comes in waves: a child may play football as usual, feel relief that the pain is over, forget for a whole day at the beach and then feel guilty, and all of this is normal and does not mean the love has gone.

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**Who acts:** Grief, child, pain, all, love · **What happens:** come, play, feel, be, forget, not mean · **To what, where:** waves, football, relief · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When a grandparent dies» of the religion ethics 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, child, pain, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:058-when-a-grandparent-dies.lesson:5
# text = Grief comes in waves: a child may play football as usual, feel relief that the pain is over, forget for a whole day at the beach and then feel guilty, and all of this is normal and does not mean the love has gone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 058-when-a-grandparent-dies.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	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
10	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	ccomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
33	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nmod	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	ccomp	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location |
| 2 | **play** | may | a child | football |  |  |  | as usual | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | a child *not said here* | relief |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relief=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the pain |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **forget** | infinitive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | infinitive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  | then | guilty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | present | all |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **go** | present · perfect | the love |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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