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title: Grief often comes in waves: something small, like a song or a smell,… — Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief often comes in waves: something small, like a song or a smell, can bring it back suddenly, even after a good day. Who acts: Grief, something. A sentence of the lesson «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 10

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Grief often comes in waves: something small, like a song or a smell, can bring it back suddenly, even after a good day.

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**Who acts:** Grief, something · **What happens:** come, bring back · **To what, where:** waves, Grief

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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, something), 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:10
# text = Grief often comes in waves: something small, like a song or a smell, can bring it back suddenly, even after a good day.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 |  | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location |
| 2 | **bring back** | can | something | Grief |  |  | day | suddenly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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 ×2, 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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