When someone dies, sentence 9

"Passed away" is a gentle way of saying "died"; underneath, it means the person has died and will not come back.

Who acts: gentle way, it, person · What happens: pass away, be, say, die, mean, not come back · To what, where: gentle way · 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 (gentle way, it, person), 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	_	2 Passed	punct
2	Passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 Passed	advmod
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Passed	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Passed	ccomp
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 saying	mark
10	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 way	acl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 died	punct
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saying	ccomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 died	punct
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 means	punct
15	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	18 means	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 underneath	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 means	nsubj
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Passed	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 person	det
20	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 died	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 died	aux
22	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 means	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 come	advmod
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 died	conj
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Passed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass away in a quote	past			away property	tree rules
2	is a	present		a gentle way		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	a gentle way not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	die in a quote	past				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	mean	present	it		underneath property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	die	present · perfect	the person			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	not come back	future	the person not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:9.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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