--- title: Feeling numb, «like being in a bubble», is very common after a death… — Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb · tree and pragmatics description: Feeling numb, «like being in a bubble», is very common after a death, especially at first; it is the mind's way of coping with a big shock. Who acts: Feeling, death, way. 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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 (Feeling, death, way), 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:9 # text = Feeling numb, «like being in a bubble», is very common after a death, especially at first; it is the mind's way of coping with a big shock. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl 2 numb numb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 like like SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:VBP:_ 6 being be VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 parataxis _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bubble bubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 11 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 after after ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 especially especially ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 advmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl 29 of of SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 coping cope VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 shock shock NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | gerund | | | | | | numb *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | a bubble | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bubble=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | Feeling | | | | after a death | common, first *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | death | the mind's way | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cope** | gerund | the mind's way *not said here* | | | | | with a big shock | vn cope-83-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with shock=Theme | 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:9`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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