When someone dies, sentence 8

When doctors say someone is dying, the illness cannot be cured and the body is slowly stopping; they can often guess roughly how long is left.

Who acts: doctors, someone, body · What happens: say, die, not cure, stop, guess, leave · To what, where: illness · 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 (doctors, someone, body), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 say	advmod
2	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cured	advcl
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 dying	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dying	aux
6	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 say	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 illness	det
9	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cured	nsubj:pass
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cured	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 cured	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cured	aux:pass
13	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stopping	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 body	det
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stopping	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 stopping	aux
18	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	19 stopping	advmod
19	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 cured	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 guess	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 guess	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 guess	aux
23	often	often	ADV	_	24 guess	advmod
24	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cured	parataxis
25	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	27 long	advmod
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 long	advmod
27	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 left	advmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 left	aux:pass
29	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 guess	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 cured	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	doctors			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	present · progressive	someone			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	not cure	can · passive		the illness		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source
4	stop	present · progressive	the body		slowly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	guess	can	doctors = doctor		often property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	leave	present · passive			long property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»

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:8.

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. 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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