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title: Christians believe God comforts all who mourn and slowly turns mourn… — When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe God comforts all who mourn and slowly turns mourning into joy; people of every faith and none find that love, friends and time help. Who acts: Christians, God, people. A sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» of the religion ethics course of Mova's 
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# When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 4

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Christians believe God comforts all who mourn and slowly turns mourning into joy; people of every faith and none find that love, friends and time help.

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**Who acts:** Christians, God, people · **What happens:** believe, comfort, mourn, turn, find, help · **To what, where:** all, joy, love · **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, people), 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:4
# text = Christians believe God comforts all who mourn and slowly turns mourning into joy; people of every faith and none find that love, friends and time help.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
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	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	mourning	mourn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	conj	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **comfort** | present | God | all |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus all=Experiencer |
| 3 | **mourn** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **turn** | present |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mourn** | gerund |  |  |  | joy |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **find** | infinitive | people of every faith | that love and friends and time |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent love=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 7 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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