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title: Many people, even priests, feel angry or confused with God when some… — Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many people, even priests, feel angry or confused with God when someone they prayed for dies. Who acts: Many people, People, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment, sentence 9

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Many people, even priests, feel angry or confused with God when someone they prayed for dies.

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**Who acts:** Many people, People, someone · **What happens:** feel, pray, die

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment» 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 (Many people, People, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.lesson:9
# text = Many people, even priests, feel angry or confused with God when someone they prayed for dies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
8	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
14	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **feel** | present | Many people |  |  |  |  | with God; angry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pray** | past | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **die** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×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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