When someone dies, sentence 15

"At least it was peaceful" means the person died calmly, often without pain; people say it kindly, but "I'm sorry" is always a safer thing to say.

Who acts: grief, person, people, Grown ups · What happens: be, mean, die, say · To what, where: least, grief, safer thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» of the adult life 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 (grief, person, people, Grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 peaceful	punct
2	At	at	ADP	_	3 least	case
3	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 peaceful	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 peaceful	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 peaceful	cop
6	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 peaceful	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 died	nsubj
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 means	ccomp
12	calmly	calmly	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 died	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 died	punct
14	often	often	ADV	_	16 pain	advmod
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 pain	case
16	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 died	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 say	nsubj
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 say	obj
21	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	19 say	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thing	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 sorry	cc
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 sorry	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sorry	nsubj
26	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sorry	cop
27	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thing	csubj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 sorry	punct
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 thing	cop
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 thing	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thing	det
32	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 thing	amod
33	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	ccomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 say	mark
35	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 thing	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	grief		least	peaceful property	tree rules
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die	past	the person			without pain; calmly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	present	people	grief		kindly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	is in a quote	present	Grown ups = ups			sorry property	tree rules
6	is a	present		a safer thing		always property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	people not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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, 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:adult-life:024-when-someone-dies.lesson:15.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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