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title: Christians believe God comforts those who mourn; Jesus said, «Blesse… — When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe God comforts those who mourn; Jesus said, «Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.» Who acts: Christians, God, Jesus, those. A sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 16

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Christians believe God comforts those who mourn; Jesus said, «Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.»

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**Who acts:** Christians, God, Jesus, those · **What happens:** believe, comfort, mourn, say, be · **To what, where:** those, Christians · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» 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 (Christians, God, Jesus, those), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:069-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer.lesson:16
# text = Christians believe God comforts those who mourn; Jesus said, «Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 069-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer.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): R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comforts	comfort	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mourn	mourn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
13	Blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
15	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	mourn	mourn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **comfort** | present | God | those |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer |
| 3 | **mourn** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | those |  |  |  |  | bless *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **mourn** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **comfort** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | Christians *= christian* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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): R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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