--- title: Grief comes in waves, like the sea at the beach: a big wave, then ca… — Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb · tree and pragmatics description: Grief comes in waves, like the sea at the beach: a big wave, then calm, then another wave when a song or a smell brings it back, and over time the waves usually get gentler. Who acts: Grief, song, waves. 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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 (Grief, song, waves), 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:3 # text = Grief comes in waves, like the sea at the beach: a big wave, then calm, then another wave when a song or a smell brings it back, and over time the waves usually get gentler. # 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): R6-punct-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 , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 then then ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 23 when when SCONJ WRB _ 29 mark _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 over over ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 38 usually usually ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 40 gentler gentle ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Grief | | | waves | | like the sea at the beach | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location | | 2 | **bring back** | present | a song or a smell | Grief | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | the waves | | | | time | gentle, usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-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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