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title: Grief is the big, heavy feeling that comes when someone we love dies… — Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief is the big, heavy feeling that comes when someone we love dies; you could call it love that has nowhere to go for a while. Who acts: Grief, big heavy feeling, we, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary scho
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# Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 0

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Grief is the big, heavy feeling that comes when someone we love dies; you could call it love that has nowhere to go for a while.

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**Who acts:** Grief, big heavy feeling, we, someone, you, love · **What happens:** be, come, love, die, call, have · **To what, where:** big heavy feeling, Grief · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb» 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, big heavy feeling, we, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:066-grief-crying-not-crying-and-feeling-numb.lesson:0
# text = Grief is the big, heavy feeling that comes when someone we love dies; you could call it love that has nowhere to go for a while.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 066-grief-crying-not-crying-and-feeling-numb.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:xcomp
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | Grief | the big heavy feeling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | the big heavy feeling |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **love** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **die** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **call** | could | you | Grief |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 6 | **have** | present | love |  |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | while |  | 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): R5-strong ×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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