Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 12
"Six feet under" means dead and buried, because graves were dug about six feet deep.
Who acts: Six feet · What happens: mean, bury, dug · To what, where: dead, graves
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 (Six feet), 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 | _ | 3 feet | punct |
| 2 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 feet | nummod |
| 3 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | nsubj |
| 4 | under | under | ADV | _ | 3 feet | advmod |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 under | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 buried | cc |
| 9 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dead | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dug | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 dug | mark |
| 12 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dug | aux:pass |
| 14 | dug | dug | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | advcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 six | advmod |
| 16 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 feet | nummod |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 deep | obl |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 14 dug | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | mean | present | Six feet | dead | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bury | participle | Six feet not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dug | past · passive | graves | deep property | 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:12.
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 ×3, R6-punct-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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