--- title: Writing a letter to someone who has died can help you say what you d… — Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb · tree and pragmatics description: Writing a letter to someone who has died can help you say what you did not get to say; the letter is for you. Who acts: Writing, you, letter. 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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 (Writing, you, letter), 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:15 # text = Writing a letter to someone who has died can help you say what you did not get to say; the letter is for you. # 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): no change 1 Writing write VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nmod _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 19 obj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 parataxis _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | gerund | | a letter | someone | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to someone=Recipient | | 2 | **die** | present · perfect | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **help** | can | Writing | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **get** | past · do-support | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 7 | **is** | present | the letter | | | | | for you | tree rules | 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:religion-ethics:066-grief-crying-not-crying-and-feeling-numb.lesson:15`. **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): no change. **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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