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L'anomalia? Ne parliamo perché sembra grave.

L'anomalia? Ne parliamo perché sembra grave.
The anomaly? We are talking about it because it seems serious.
From Lesson 444:Personal and impersonal seeming (sembrare, parere)·Italian

Questions & Answers about L'anomalia? Ne parliamo perché sembra grave.

Is sembra being used in a personal or impersonal construction here?
It is used personally here. The implied subject is l'anomalia, which directly "seems" a certain way. If it were impersonal, it would translate as "it seems that" and would require a subordinate clause with the subjunctive, such as sembra che l'anomalia sia grave.
Could I use pare instead of sembra in this sentence?
Yes, sembrare and parere are interchangeable here. You can say perché pare grave without changing the meaning. Parere behaves exactly the same way syntactically in both personal and impersonal constructions.
Why is the pronoun ne used in ne parliamo?
The verb parlare takes the preposition di when you talk about something (parlare di qualcosa). The pronoun ne replaces di plus the topic you are discussing. Instead of repeating parliamo dell'anomalia, we use ne to say we are talking "about it".
Since the subject is feminine, why doesn't the adjective grave end in an -a?
Because sembra acts as a linking verb in this personal construction, the adjective must agree with the subject l'anomalia. However, grave is an adjective that always ends in -e for both masculine and feminine singular words. If the subject were plural, it would change to gravi.

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