Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 10
"Bought the farm" means died, often in a crash or in battle; it is American slang.
Who acts: farm · What happens: buy, mean, die, be · To what, where: farm, American slang · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms 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 (farm), 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 Bought | punct |
| 2 | Bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | csubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 farm | det |
| 4 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bought | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bought | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 often | punct |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 died | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 crash | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crash | det |
| 12 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 battle | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 battle | case |
| 15 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crash | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 slang | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 slang | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 slang | cop |
| 19 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 slang | amod |
| 20 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy in a quote | past | the farm | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | die | participle | in a crash or battle; often property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in crash=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | farm | American slang | tree rules |
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:euphemisms:001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson:10.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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